Union President’s Evaluation, Transfer Found To Be Retaliatory
The City of Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Lodge 29 of the Fraternal Order of Police are parties to a collective bargaining agreement. Lieutenant Steve Helm is the president of Lodge 29. When a captain completed Helm’s 2017 performance evaluation, he downgraded Helm on communications issues, citing Helm’s role as FOP president. For example, the captain wrote that “I still find, however, that some issues that should be brought to my…