Plumbers & Pipefitters, Local 367, Appellant v. Municipality of Anchorage, Appellee

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed a permanent injunction barring a Class A.2 public-employee strike and allowing the municipality to implement its last best offer. It held that the municipal code comprehensively governed the parties' collective-bargaining impasse and limited the court's equitable authority to the injunction decision, preventing the court from imposing an arbitration award that lacked the required Assembly approval. The court also rejected the argument that enjoining the strike required substituting a right to binding arbitration.