By Mark Scolforo
Associated Press
September 10, 2009 03:59 pm
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HARRISBURG — A new federal lawsuit says top officers in the Pennsylvania State Police retaliated against leaders of the troopers' union in response to the filing of labor grievances.
The 53-page lawsuit by the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association and six of the organization's officials was filed Thursday in federal court in Harrisburg.
The defendants are Commissioner Frank Pawlowski, Deputy Commissioner John Brown and former commissioner Jeffrey Miller.
The troopers' union says it files about 200 grievances a year. It says that since 2003 the defendants have "engaged in a deliberate, premeditated and illegal course of conduct to retaliate" against its leadership.
Messages left for the state police and the union's lawyer weren't immediately returned.
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