Port Authority of Allegheny County v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 85.

OPINION BY

Judge LEADBETTER.

The Port Authority of Allegheny County (Port Authority) appeals from the order of the Court of - Common Pleas (common pleas) sustaining the arbitration award that reinstated Robert Irdi to his position as an incline1 operator after finding that he had inappropriately touched a female passenger. We reverse.

The Port Authority fired Irdi from his job of 26 years based on the report of the passenger and a co-worker who witnessed the incident where Irdi more than once reached under the passenger’s shirt to touch her abdomen. In her written report, the passenger explained…