Fasi V. Hawaii

The Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu (C&C) sought by a petition filed with the Hawaii Public Employment Relations Board (Board) to obtain a declaratory ruling with respect to certain provisions of HRS Chapter 89, which provides for collective bargaining in public employment, as they related to a collective bargaining agreement between C&C and the United Public Workers, Local 646, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO (UPW). Leave to intervene was granted to UPW, as well as to Hawaii Government Employees' Association, Local 152, AFSCME, AFL-CIO (HGEA) and Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA), employee organizations which were parties to similar collective bargaining agreements with C&C. The State of Hawaii and the County of Hawaii also intervened. The County of Kauai intervened but later withdrew as a party.