County of Washington, Michael R. Flynn, Frank Jones, Jr. and Edward M. Paluso, County Commissioners, The Pennsylvania State Association of County Commissioners, Petitioners
v.
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, Charles G. Sweet, Richard DiSalle, Alexander R. Curran, Thomas D. Gladden, Paul A. Simmons and George Kenneth Hanna, and Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the 27th Judicial District, and Service Employees' International Union, Local 585, AFL-CIO, Respondents.
In the Matter of the Employees of Allegheny County.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex rel. Edward J. Bradley (President Judge acting individually and on behalf of all the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County), Petitioner
v.
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board and Raymond L. Scheib and Joseph J. Licastro and James H. Jones, Respondents.
Board of Judges, Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Seventh Judicial District of Pennsylvania, by its President Judge, Lawrence A. Monroe, Petitioner. In the Matter of the Employees of Bucks County Commissioners and Bucks County Register of Wills and Bucks County Commissioners and Bucks County Sheriff and Bucks County Commissioners and Bucks County Clerk of Courts and Bucks County Commissioners and Bucks County Prothonotary.
In the Matter of County of Bucks, George M. Metzger, G. Roger Bowers and Joseph F. Catania, County Commissioners, Petitioners
v.
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, Board of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Seventh Judicial District, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, District Council, 88 AFL-CIO, and Pennsylvania Social Services Union, Local 668, AFL-CIO, Respondents.
Roger M. Fischer, Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans' Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Plaintiff
v.
Louis Rzymek, William O. Hill, Jr. and Leo P. Weir, Commissioners for the County of Erie, Pennsylvania, and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Defendants. Pennsylvania State Association of County Commissioners, Intervening Party Defendant.
Robert H. Chase, District Attorney, Erie County, Pennsylvania, Plaintiff
v.
Louis Rzymek, William O. Hill, Jr. and Leo P. Weir, Commissioners for the County of Erie, Pennsylvania, and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Defendants. Pennsylvania State Association of County Commissioners, Intervening Party Defendant.
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Argued June 8, 1976.
September 10, 1976.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James L. Crawford, Assistant Attorney General, with him James F. Wildeman, Assistant Attorney General, and Raymond W. Cromer, Assistant Attorney General, for Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.
David S. Posner, for the Court of Common Pleas of the 27th Judicial District.
Warren H. Pyle, with him Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle & Wanger; Louis B. Kushner; and Rothman, Gordon, Foreman and Groudine, for Service Employees International Union, Local 585, AFL-CIO.
Marvin Comisky, with him Alan C. Gershenson, Kenneth F. Kahn, and, of counsel, Blank, Rome, Klaus & Comisky, and Jonathan Vipond, III, for Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts.
Robert M. Crooks, for Board of Judges of the Seventh Judicial District, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Thomas H.M. Hough, Special Labor Counsel, with him Stephen Z. Zappala, County Solicitor, for County of Allegheny.
Richard Kirschner, with him Stephen C. Richman, Miriam L. Gafni, and Markowitz & Kirschner, for AFSCME, AFL-CIO.
Scott F. Zimmerman, with him James J. Restivo, Jr., and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County.
Warren M. Laddon, with him John G. Kruchko, for the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County.
Morton Meyers, for Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the 47th Judicial District.
Charles N. Sweet, with him John W. Donaghy, and, of counsel, Curtin and Heefner, for Bucks County Commissioners.
John M. McLaughlin, with him Paul F. Curry, and Knox, Graham, McLaughlin, Gornall and Sennett, Inc., for District Attorney for Erie County, Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans' Court of Erie County.
Warren W. Bentz, for Commissioners for the County of Erie.
Stephen J. Cabot and Edward H. Feege, with them Charles N. Sweet, Hayes and Feege, P.C., Curtin and Heefner, and Pechner, Dorfman, Wolffe & Rounick, for Pennsylvania Association of County Commissioners.
Argued June 8, 1976, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER and BLATT. Judges KRAMER and ROGERS did not participate.
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE BOWMAN, September 10, 1976:
In Sweet v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board,12 Pa.Commw. 358, 316 A.2d 665 (1974), we held that for the purpose of collective bargaining pursuant to the Public Employe Relations Act (Act 195), Act of July 23, 1970, P.L. 563, as amended, 43 P.S. § 1101.101 et seq., the county commissioners...
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