City of Winter Park v. Winter Park Professional Fire Fighters, Local 1598

COBB, Judge.

The issue raised by this appeal is whether the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC) erred, as a matter of law, in holding that three battalion chiefs in the Winter Park Fire Department are supervisory, rather than managerial, employees— and therefore part of a bargaining unit represented by Winter Park Professional Fire Fighters, Local 1598, IAFF (the Union) against the City. We considered essentially this same issue in City of St. Augustine v. Professional Fire Fighters of St. Augustine, Local 2282, IAFF, PFFF, 440 So. 2d 416 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983), petition for review…