San Jose – A petition to a Court of Appeals by the union that represents the workers of the Valley Transportation Authority, requesting a reversion of a decision of the Superior Court that ordered them to work on Friday, in accordance with judicial documents.
The local Amalgamated Transits Union 265, which made a historic two -week strike of the week in March after the negotiations for a new contract broke, had presented a petition before the Court of Appeals of the Sixth District in the Superior Court of April 1.
That petition was summarily denied on Friday, according to judicial records.
A union representative could not be contacted immediately to comment.
The union left work on March 10, and the VTA had presented the judicial case against the union on the first day of its strike alleging that the union violated a “without strike” clause in the contract. The union maintained that the clause no longer applied because the contract had expired.
At the end of March, the Judge of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, Daniel T. Nishigaya, ruled that the union had to return to work immediately. He issued a court order claiming that the VTA with its initial burden to show probable success, but did not issue a decision on claims in the case.
The Court of Appeal had given the Superior Court and the VTA a deadline on Friday to present objections to the claim.