Jefferson County Court Appointed Employees Ass'n v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board

OPINION

Justice BAER.

In this appeal by allowance, we examine, in the context of a labor dispute, the inherent conflict between a board of county commissioners’ constitutional right, in its legislative capacity, to implement a budget and the judiciary’s constitutional right to administer justice by hiring, firing, and supervising its employees, within that budget. Under the circumstances here presented, we reach the following conclusions: (1) the labor organization representing the judiciary’s employees has standing in this matter; (2) the county, in establishing its budget, did not encroach on…