Contracting out work
Vestal Employees Association, v PERB and the Vestal Central School District, 94 NY2d 409
In Matter of Webster Cent. School Dist. v Public Empl. Relations Bd., (75 NY2d 619), the Court of Appeals ruled that Education Law Section 1950 (4) (bb) permits school districts to substitute participation in a Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) summer school program for its own program without undertaking collective bargaining with their teachers' unions.
In this case the Court of Appeals considered another portion of the same statute, Education Law Section 1950 (4) (d), and determined that a school district may to subcontract out its printing services to a BOCES without collective bargaining.
The Vestal Central School District subcontracted its printing services to the Broome-Tioga BOCES.
The single District employee affected consented to the transfer and continued to perform printing duties in the same shop using the same machines.
As a result of this change, the individual performed printing services for two school districts instead of one. In addition, upon this transfer, the employee became a member of a new bargaining unit, the BOCES Support Services Association, which negotiated the terms and conditions of his employment.
PERB dismissed the improper practice charge filed by the Vestal Employees Association (30 PERB 3029) ruling that Education Law Section 1950 (4) (d) applied to contracts for shared noninstructional services. PERB commented that the Commissioner of Education's approval of the agreement "necessarily represents the Commissioner's opinion that the printing services in issue in this case fall within the 'other services' " category of Education Law Section 1950 (4) (d).
The Court of Appeals concluded that “Under this legislative scheme, which grants the Commissioner the discretion to approve aidable shared services, which provides broad protections for public employees other than teachers, and which incorporates tight time considerations, the intent is plain and clear that a school district's decision to subcontract printing services to BOCES is not subject to mandatory collective bargaining.”
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