Neither the State nor any county, political subdivision, incorporated city, town, nor any other municipal corporation shall prohibit, deny or obstruct the right of firefighters to join any bona fide labor organization of their own choice.
Cal. Lab. Code § 1960
Firefighters
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 252 Cal. App. 2d 136 - Ball v. City Council of Coachella (1967)
Most recently applied in State Building & Construction Trades Council v. City of Vista (July 2012)
Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 723.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.