Lake County Board of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities v. State Employment Relations Board

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Appellant, Lake County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (“MRDD”), appeals the judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas affirming the directive of appellee, State Employment Relations Board (“SERB”), which certified a combined bargaining unit containing employees currently represented in the Professional Association for the Training of the Mentally Retarded (“PATMR”) OEA/NEA and Deepwood Employees Association (“DEA”) OEA/NEA bargaining units. PATMR and DEA, having intervened, are also appellees. Specifically, MRDD alleges that SERB violated…