Deputy sheriffs from Allegheny County may collectively bargain as “police officers” under Pennsylvania’s Act 111, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

Led by Justice Seamus P. McCaffery, the split, six-justice high court reversed the Commonwealth Court, also setting aside a Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) finding that established deputy sheriffs as court employees rather than police.

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