Commonwealth v. Independent State Stores Union

OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

This appeal concerns a labor arbitration award reversing the dismissal of an employee of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (“LCB”). When the award was affirmed by the Commonwealth Court, the LCB petitioned this Court for an allowance of appeal, which we granted because of the importance of the issues involved.

The subject of the arbitration award was a Mr. Albert McCardle, who, until July of 1984, was employed by the LCB as a General Manager IB, a first-level supervisory *269position. Mr. McCardle was assigned to an LCB store located in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, and,…