State Labor Board Rules PBSD Violated Admin Assistant Contract

The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board has ruled that the Plum Borough School District has violated its contract with its secretaries and administrative assistants.

The Plum Borough School District Educational Secretaries/ Educational Support Professionals/Pennsylvania State Education Association/National Education Association union filed a charge of unfair practices with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, alleging that the school district violated its contract by transferring the work of employees to an outside source, Kelly Educational Staffing, in June 2011.

Kelly Services was hired to provide the district with day-to-day substitutes for teachers, school nurses, paraprofessionals, and for custodial, cafeteria and secretarial employees. At the time, district officials said they made the switch in an attempt to imporove the fill rate.

According to the ruling, several administrative assistants said some of their duties—including payroll for substitutes, assigning subs and monitoring call offs for district employees—were transfered to Kelly Services without any negotiation.

The district, however, said that the work never was exclusively that of the administrative assistants, and that the employees never spoke up when they heard the school board's plans to hire Kelly Services.

The order directs the district to cease and desist transferring bargaining unit work. However, the school board with Kelly Services in June.

According to the Plum Advance Leader, school board President Andy Drake said officials would be discussing the matter in private this week.

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