COUNCIL 13, AFSCME v. Casey

CRAIG, President Judge.

Petitioners, a state employees’ union and two representative members (AFSCME), has brought this original jurisdiction petition for review in the nature of mandamus and equity proceedings, seeking a peremptory mandamus order or preliminary injunction to compel the Commonwealth and the Governor to pay 19,781 employees of long standing, hired before October of 1978, their salary payments due to be paid on July 5, 1991 and July 12, 1991.

The court allowed the intervention, as additional petitioners, of another state employees’ union and two of its members (PSSU), because…