Sacramento County Measure A passed on Tuesday with 52% of the vote. Measure A added additional law enforcement employees to those covered by the County’s binding interest arbitration provision. Because Sacramento County already had binding interest arbitration for deputy sheriffs, Measure A did not add another public entity to the list of those with binding arbitration. As it stands today, there are 24 charter cities/counties in California with some form of binding interest arbitration. They are:
- Alameda
- Anaheim
- Gilroy
- Hayward
- Modesto
- Monterey
- Napa
- Oakland
- Oroville
- Palo Alto
- Petaluma
- Redwood City
- Sacramento City
- Sacramento County
- Salinas
- San Francisco
- San Jose
- San Leandro
- San Luis Obispo
- Santa Cruz
- Santa Rosa
- Stockton
- Vallejo
- Watsonville
Of these 24:
- The first entity to adopt binding arbitration was Vallejo in 1970. The most recent was Oroville in 2004;
- Sacramento County is the only county with binding arbitration (unless you count San Francisco, then there are 2);
- Anaheim is the only public entity in Southern California with binding arbitration;
- Vallejo and San Francisco are the only public entities with binding arbitration covering non-safety employees.
- (To my knowledge) Binding interest arbitration has been invoked in 13 of the 24 entities. They are: Alameda, Anaheim, Gilroy, Hayward, Modesto, Oakland, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Sacramento County, San Francisco, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, and Vallejo. [Update: I’ve been informed that fire and police in City of Sacramento have also gone to arbitration.]
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