Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit No. 5 Education Ass'n v. Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit No. 5

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County which vacated an arbitrator’s award in a dispute between the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit Number Five (Intermediate Unit) and the bargaining representative of the Intermediate Unit employees (Association).1 The arbitrator’s award was in favor of the Association, and the Association appealed here after the court’s vacation of the award.

The Intermediate Unit provides special education services for the students of seventeen school districts in Erie, Crawford and Warren Counties, and its…