OPINION AND - California Correctional Peace Officers Association

surveillance agent in the Singleton matter, and there
were other complaints of a similar genre, e . g . , Duenas
was not a " team player. l1 But there was nothing that rose
to the level of a reprimand or other form of discipline.
I have two comnents to make about these &
efforts to justify the exclusion of the grievants from
the overtime assignments despite the fact that they were
experienced and were, so far as the record discloses,
perfectly competent Parole Agents who have been doing
their job satisfactorily for a long time.
First, these comnents fall in the category, in my
judgment, of felicitous afterthoughts. Second, and more
important, I find no nexus between this relatively
picayune fault -finding and the term %perational needs of
the Department. l1
Management certainly has the right to manage. Article
4.01 underscores this truism. But it must manage in
accordance within the constraints of the Memorandum of
Agreement.