UP6205 A142045. 2012-06-27 AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION, DIVISION 757, Petitioner Cross–Respondent, v. TRI–COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT OF OREGON, Respondent Cross–Petitioner. Susan L. Stoner argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioner-cross-respondent. Keith M. Garza, Salem, argued the cause for respondent-cross-petitioner. On the brief was Jana Toran. ORTEGA Susan L. Stoner argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioner-cross-respondent. Keith M. Garza, Salem, argued
(1) It is the public policy of the State of Oregon that where the right of employees to strike is by law prohibited, it is requisite to the high morale of such employees and the efficient operation of such departments to afford an alternate, expeditious, effective and binding procedure for the resolution of labor disputes and to that end the provisions of ORS 240.060, 240.065, 240.080, 240.123, 243.650 to 243.809 and 341.290, providing for compulsory arbitration, shall be liberally construed. (2)
(1) It is unlawful for any of the following public employees to strike or recognize a picket line of a labor organization while in the performance of official duties: (a) Assistant attorneys general; (b) Deputy district attorneys; (c) Emergency communications worker; (d) Employee of the Oregon Youth Authority who has custody, control or supervision of adjudicated youths; (e) Firefighter; (f) Guard at a correctional institution or mental hospital; (g) Parole and probation officer who supervises adult