City of Pittsburgh v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

This case presents the question of whether the 159 captains, 24 battalion chiefs and 4 deputy chiefs in the *503Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire should be excluded from the collective bargaining unit, the union representative of which is the Pittsburgh Firefighters, Local No. 1, International Association of Firefighters, AFL-CIO.

To request the exclusion of those positions, the city filed its petition for unit clarification with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) on November 12, 1985. After hearings, a hearing examiner issued a proposed order of unit clarification,…