About 200 paramedics who work for the Philadelphia Fire Department may continue as part of the collective bargaining unit for uniformed department employees, the Commonwealth Court has ruled, deciding the “Fire Service Paramedics” were still firefighters under Pennsylvania’s Act 111.
The majority of a three-judge panel ruled that the FSPs should continue to be included in Local 22 — the bargaining representative for all uniformed fire personnel of the PFD — deciding that the definition of firefighter should not be limited to directing water to flame. One judge dissented.
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