International Ass'n of Fire Fighters v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board

*835OPINION BY

Judge McCULLOUGH.

The International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 22, AFL-CIO (Local 22) petitions for review of the September 21, 2010, order of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (Board) determining that Fire Service Paramedics (FSPs) are not firefighters under the statute commonly known as Act 111.2 We reverse.

Local 22 is the exclusive bargaining representative of all uniformed fire personnel employed by the Philadelphia Fire Department (Fire Department), including firefighters and about two hundred FSPs. (Hearing examiner’s Findings of Fact, No. 1.) The Fire Department…