Local 1400, Chester City Fire Fighters Ass'n v. Nacrelli

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

The Chester City Fire Fighters Association (Local 1400) has taken an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County sustaining Chester City’s preliminary objections and dismissing Local 1400’s complaint in mandamus.

The controversy presently before this Court has its roots in the passage of the Act of June 24, 1968, P. L. 237, 43 P.S. §217.1 et seq., commonly referred to as Act No. 111. This statute authorizes firemen and policemen, employed by political subdivisions of the Commonwealth, to unionize and, thereafter, to engage in collective…