CITY OF FREEPORT v. ILL. ST. LAB. REL. BD.

Nos. 67147, 67152, 67181 cons.

135 Ill.2d 499 (1990)

554 N.E.2d 155

THE CITY OF FREEPORT, Appellee, v. THE ILLINOIS STATE LABOR RELATIONS BOARD et al., Appellants. — THE VILLAGE OF WHEELING, Appellant, v. THE ILLINOIS STATE LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Robert J. Ruiz, Solicitor General, and Valerie J. Peiler, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellants Illinois State Labor Relations Board et al.

J. Dale Berry and Gilbert Feldman, of Cornfield & Feldman, of Chicago, for appellant AFSCME Council 31.

John T. Weise, of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, of Chicago, for appellee City of Freeport.

Thomas W. Kelty, of Pfeifer & Kelty, P.C., and Roger Huebner, both of Springfield, for amicus curiae Illinois Municipal League.

James A. Murphy, of Peoria, and Giacomo A. Pecoraro, of Springfield, for amicus curiae Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc.

James C. Franczek, Jr., Andrea R. Waintroob and James J. Zuehl, of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Public Employer Labor Relations Association.

James Baird and Gary S. Kaplan, of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, of Chicago, for appellant Village of Wheeling.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Robert J. Ruiz, Solicitor General, and Ann Plunkett-Sheldon, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellee Illinois State Labor Relations Board.

J. Dale Berry, of Cornfield & Feldman, of Chicago, for appellee Wheeling Firefighters Association.

James C. Franczek, Jr., Andrea R. Waintroob and James J. Zuehl, of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Public Employer Labor Relations Association.

Wayne M. Klocke, of Long, Rabin & Young, Ltd., of Springfield, for amicus curiae Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois.

Joel A. D'Alba and Anne Wells Clark, of Chicago (Asher, Pavalon, Gittler & Greenfield, Ltd., of counsel), for amicus curiae Illinois State Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO.


Judgments affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

These consolidated actions are before this court on administrative review of certain orders of the Illinois State Labor Relations Board (Board). We must consider whether the Board erred in determining that certain employees of the Village of Wheeling fire department and of the City of Freeport police department were not supervisors within the meaning of section 3(r) of the Illinois Public...

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