Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board v. Butler Education Ass'n

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

These consolidated appeals arise from orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County sustaining appellee’s charge that the Butler Education Association (Association) and its agent engaged in unfair practices and enjoining them from pursuing ar*551bitration seeking appellee’s discharge for failure to pay union dues. Because arbitration was the proper, remedy, we must reverse.

The Association and the Butler Area School District (District) executed a collective bargaining agreement on October 8, 1973, for the years 1973-1975. Included in Appendix “B,” Article XII…