Deputy Sheriffs Ass'n v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board

OPINION BY

Senior Judge NARICK.1

Deputy Sheriffs Association of Berks County (Association) petitions for review of a final order of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (Board) that affirmed a hearing examiner’s amended proposed or*1065der dismissing the Association’s petition for representation. We affirm.

In 1980, the Board certified American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, District Council 88, AFL-CIO (AFSCME), as the exclusive representative of a unit of full-time and regular part-time non-professional court-related employees.2 On October 7,1999, the Association filed a…