The intent and purpose of this chapter is to promote the continued improvement of the relationship between public employers and their employees by providing a uniform basis for implementing the right of public employees to join labor organizations of their own choosing and to be represented by such organizations in matters concerning their employment relations with public employers.
RCW 41.56.010
Declaration of purpose.
Known as the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Act
The act spans §§ 41–41 (62 sections).
Applied in 44 court decisions — leading case 119 Wash. 2d 504 - City of Pasco v. Public Employment Relations Commission (1992)
Most recently applied in Katherine Miller v. Jay Inslee (February 2019)
1967 ex.s. c 108 s 1.
How often courts cite this section
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: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.