The provisions of this chapter are intended to be additional to other remedies and shall be liberally construed to accomplish their purpose. Except as provided in RCW 53.18.015, 41.58.070, 43.101.095, and 43.101.135, if any provision of this chapter conflicts with any other statute, ordinance, rule or regulation of any public employer, the provisions of this chapter shall control.
RCW 41.56.905
Uniformed personnel—Provisions additional—Liberal construction.
Known as the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Act
The act spans §§ 41–41 (62 sections).
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 119 Wash. 2d 504 - City of Pasco v. Public Employment Relations Commission (1992)
Most recently applied in 184 Wash. 2d 252 - Becker v. Community Health Systems, Inc. (September 2015)
2021 c 323 s 23; 2021 c 13 s 4; 1983 c 287 s 5; 1973 c 131 s 10.
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.