In Baltimore Teachers Union v. Board of Education, 379 Md. 192, 840 A.2d 728 (2004), the Court held that the Baltimore Teachers Union had standing to sue the State Board of Education for declaratory and injunctive relief related to the Board's efforts to enter into a contract with a private corporation to operate certain public schools in Baltimore City. The Court emphasized that the union was the "designated collective bargaining agent" for all employees of the Baltimore City school system and owed its members a fiduciary duty to advocate on their behalf. Id. at 199. If the actions it challenged in its lawsuit had come to fruition, that would have had the effect of diminishing the union's bargaining power by permitting certain public schools to operate outside of the labor agreement. The Court held that this was a harm to the union that was sufficient to give it standing to sue to prevent the Board of Education from going forward with the contract.