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MURPHY v. COM.

506 Pa. 549 (1985)

486 A.2d 388

Joan L. MURPHY, Lorraine R. Mason, Edith L. McGrody, Marie Pekala, Henrietta Elliott, Catherine Beres, Virginia Knowles, Ann Jacyszyn, Peggy Felmey, Eleanor Neyer, Doris Yocum & Elizabeth McNasby, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and Crown Cork and Seal Company, Inc., and Sheet Metal Production Workers' Union, Local 266, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided January 9, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan M. Lerner, Jeffrey Ivan Pasek, Manya L. Kamerling, Stanley M. Schwarz, Ann A. Nevel, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Cecilia Macri, Ellen K. Barry, Dauphin Co., Harrisburg, for appellee Pa. Human Relations Com'n.

Steven P. Gallagher, Michael Stack, Philadelphia Co., Jerome Hoffman, Philadelphia, for appellee Crown Cork and Seal Co., Inc.

Mark P. Muller, Philadelphia, for appellee Sheet Metal Production Workers Union Local 266.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

McDERMOTT, Justice.

Appellants have brought this appeal to challenge an order of the Commonwealth Court which affirmed a decision of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.

In February of 1970, eleven female employees of Crown Cork and Seal, Inc. (Company) went to the offices of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission to complain that the Company, with the assistance and acquiescence of their union, the Sheet Metal Production...

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