Ahern v. Oregon Public Employees Union

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that ERB has exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether an unfair labor practice has been committed under ORS 243.672
• holding that tort and state constitutional claims were within ERB’s exclusive jurisdiction because the “gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint” was that the defendant committed an unfair labor practice
• explaining that anyone “who has been injured by an unfair labor practice * * * may file a complaint with ERB”
• given a complex regulatory scheme, ERB has \exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether an unfair labor practice has been committed\
• It is “the nature of the matter, not the label that a party has placed on it.”
• a plaintiff cannot avoid ERB’s jurisdiction by alleging an unfair labor practice as an element of another type of claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).