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Constitutional Law Keyed to Paulsen
Perry Education Assn. v. Perry Local Educators’ Assn.
Citation:
460 U.S. 37, 103 S.Ct. 948 (1983)Facts
The Metropolitan School District of Perry Township, Indiana, operated thirteen separate schools with an internal mail system consisting of teacher mailboxes and interschool delivery by school employees. Prior to 1977, both PEA and PLEA had equal access to this mail system. In 1977, PEA won a representation election and was certified as the exclusive bargaining representative under Indiana law. PEA subsequently negotiated a collective-bargaining agreement that granted it exclusive access to the mail system while denying such access to PLEA and other school employee organizations. The agreement specified that access rights were accorded to PEA acting as the representative of teachers. PLEA retained access to other communication channels including bulletin boards, meeting facilities after school hours, public address systems with principal approval, and could communicate through word of mouth, telephone, or United States mail.
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