Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board v. Bald Eagle Area School District

OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

Once again we have before us the issue of whether a dispute over striking teachers’ entitlement to payment based on a collective bargaining agreement providing for a maximum school work year of 183 days, of which 180 were to be pupil contact days, is arbitrable in the face of this Commonwealth’s statutory law prohibiting any payment to public employees for the period during which they are on strike.

The instant case is here on appeal by allowance from a final order of the Commonwealth Court entered on July 13, 1979, affirming the December 30, 1977 order…