American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, District Council 88 v. County of Berks

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

This is an appeal by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) of an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County overturning an arbitrator’s decision which found that fourteen of nineteen employees who had resigned from the union had failed to effectively revoke the deduction of dues from their paychecks.

In April, 1982, a number of Berks County employees sought to resign from AFSCME. The union considered nineteen of the resignations to be ineffective because they failed to specifically revoke dues deduction authorizations and resign…