The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over a firefighters union’s direction to volunteer firefighters to refrain from responding to fires in Chambersburg Borough.
The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board and the International Association of Firefighters both filed petitions for allowance of appeal in Chambersburg Borough v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board after a split three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court said the union’s coercion of the volunteers was an unfair labor practice. The Commonwealth Court also said it was not an unfair practice to discipline shift captain Patrick Martin, who wrote the letter telling volunteers not to respond to fires.
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