As to a possible Federal appeal of this issue by CA unions, I just don’t see these (BK) CA jurisdictions winning on this issue. CA labor laws, including the right of collective bargaining, the mechanisms by which employees earn pensions and the remedies for contract enforcement mirrors its well-established counterpart of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) body of Federal law. The labor lawyers will simply compare the origins of the prevaling CA law to the NLRA and argue the applicable parts of the NLRA before the Federal appeals court and win. Slam dunk.
