Legal Question in Employment Law in California

Re: Negotiating team bargaining to get their own positions upgrades

Probably not, but it may depend on what law governs the collective bargaining process in which you are engaged. Under the National Labor Relations Act, both employers and unions have a legal obligation to engage in "good faith" bargaining. Assuming you have the evidence to establish that your negotiating team is pressing negotiations to impasse for their own self-serving purposes (as opposed to those of the bargaining unit as a whole), you have a viable claim that there has been a breach of the good faith bargaining obligation. An association such as yours (and its individual agents) also normally has a legal obligation to represent all employees whom it represents fairly and without discrimination. This is known as the duty of fair representation. If the individuals you describe are advancing their own interests to the detriment of the other members of the bargaining unit, a strong case may be made that they are breaching the duty of fair representation.

Of course, you will have to have facts to demonstrate the accuracy of your allegations and will have to look at the specific legal obligations that are imposed under the particular labor law that controls.