City of Pittsburgh v. Commonwealth

I concur in the result reached by the Majority, but write to emphasize my belief that our decision carves out a narrow exception to the general rule that pensions are mandatory subjects of bargaining under the Public Employee Relations Act (PERA).1 \

Today we are confronted with reconciling two conflicting statutes, section 701 of PERA and section 607 of the Municipal Pension Plan Funding Standard and Recovery Act (Act 205)2, both of which affect collective bargaining over public employee pension benefits. Section 701 of PERA imposes an obligation to bargain in good faith over “wages, hours,…