JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT EMPLOYEES v. PLRB.

No. 37 WAP 2007

985 A.2d 697 (2009)

JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT APPOINTED EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, Appellant v. PENNSYLVANIA LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 28, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Pushinsky, Pittsburgh, for Jefferson County Court Appointed Employees Association.

Gretchen Kirstin Love, Robert E. Durrant, Campbell, Durrant & Beatty, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Jefferson County.

Warren R. Mowery, Jr., for Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.

CASTILLE, C.J., EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, GREENSPAN, JJ.


OPINION

Justice BAER.

In this appeal by allowance, we examine, in the context of a labor dispute, the inherent conflict between a board of county commissioners' constitutional right, in its legislative capacity, to implement a budget and the judiciary's constitutional right to administer justice by hiring, firing, and supervising its employees, within that budget. Under the circumstances here presented, we reach the following conclusions: (1) the...

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