Bellefonte Area School Board v. Bellefonte Area Education Ass'n

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

When Legislatures finally determine to adopt a wholly new concept of public management, they usually do so in terms more expressive of their fear of the unforeseeable harm which may result from the new policy than of their confidence in the good it will accomplish. Hence, such legislation is often tentative, imprecise, elliptical and incomplete, leaving the hard choices either to the improbable chance that they “may not come up,” or to the courts. The Public Employe Relations Act, Act of July 23, 1970, P. L. 563, 43 P.S. §1101.101 et seq., is an example of such…