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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will wade into a
long-running dispute over whether the firings of two security officers at
Lancaster County's youth center were the result of anti-union spite.
The state's highest court opted to take on the case this
week by agreeing to hear independent appeals by the Pennsylvania Labor
Relations Board and Council 89 of the American Federation of State County and
Municipal Employees of a ruling Commonwealth Court issued in December.
The contested Commonwealth Court ruling
overturned a labor relations board finding that county officials had illegally
axed security officers Tommy Epps and Adam Medina in June 2010 because the two
favored an AFSCME push to unionize their jobs. The firings therefore violated
the state Public Employee Relations Act, the labor board found.
Commonwealth Court concluded there was not sufficient
evidence to prove an anti-union bias in the firings, however. County officials
claimed Epps and Medina were canned for stealing snacks from a co-worker, not
because they were pro-union.
The Commonwealth Court decision wasn't unanimous. Judge
Bernard L. McGinley filed a dissenting opinion, saying the timing of the
firings of supposed union sympathizers amid a unionization drive was
suspicious.
Source: Penn
Live
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