http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/11/cooleys-statements-in-union-dispute-false-hearing-officer-concludes.htmlA Los Angeles County hearing officer in a legal dispute between Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley and the union that represents many of his prosecutors has sharply criticized Cooley and his managers for waging an anti-union campaign in which union officers were harassed and unfairly disciplined.
In a scathing decision issued Wednesday, Thomas S. Kerrigan found that veteran prosecutors with outstanding evaluations were transferred to less desirable assignments in retaliation for their union work.The conclusions follow more than a year of legal wrangling between Cooley and the Assn. of Deputy District Attorneys at the county’s Employee Relations Commission. In testimony earlier this year before the commission, Cooley denied any anti-union feelings but said he had a personal dislike of some union officials, particularly its former president.
But Kerrigan concluded that Cooley’s explanations “were false and clearly pretexts” for conducting a “deliberate and thinly disguised campaign” aimed at destroying the union.
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