ABSTRACT
New Jersey was an early entrant into the realm of public sector bargaining. When the New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act (EERA) was extended to public employees in 1968,1 only the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York had enacted similar comprehensive legislation. In the thirty years since the act's passage, there has been dynamic growth in the state's public sector unions; the law has been amended several times; and the powers of the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) have been expanded. These developments have had a substantial impact on both the management of personnel and the political process.
