By Jim Cline
In another setback for Kitsap County, the Public Employment Relations Commission upheld a previous ruling that a Kitsap County Deputy prosecutor unlawfully undermined an agreement that had been reached between the Kitsap Dispatchers Guild and the County. InKitsap County, Decision 11675-A (PECB 2013), the Commission held that it was a breach of the County’s duty to bargain “in good faith” when it refused to ratify an agreement that it had already informed the Guild was agreeable to the County commissioners. [Read more…]