refused to compel public employers to engage in collective bargaining or negotiations with their employees. In Fraternal Order of Police v. Mayor and City Council of Ocean City, Md., 916 F.2d 919 (4th Cir.1990), the union alleged that a city charter provision, which prohibited collective bargaining, violated its rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Id. at 921. The court said: “The First Amendment protects the right to speak freely, to advocate ideas, and to petition government for redress of grievances, but it does not guarantee the right to collective bargaining. Consequently, nothing prohibits a government body from proscribing collective bargaining.” Ibid. Accord, Local Union No. 370,' Int’l Union of Operating Eng’rs v. Detrick, 592 F.2d 1045, 1046 (9th Cir.1979) (<HOLDING>); Sikes v. Boone, 562 F.Supp. 74, 79
holding that a county had no duty to bargain with a union of its employees holding that employees of county jail that housed federal prisoners pursuant to contract with the federal government were not federal employees even though county jail had to comply with federal rules and regulations holding that a rico action by union members was properly dismissed where any financial improprieties occurred with union funds and directly injured solely the union holding that probation department employees are not county employees holding that an employer could only distribute its proposal to union employees when the proposal was properly before the union