CITY OF TULSA v. STATE

No. 89422.

967 P.2d 1214 (1998)

1998 OK 92

CITY OF TULSA, Oklahoma, a home rule charter municipal corporation, Appellant, v. STATE of Oklahoma, ex rel. THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS BOARD, and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Tulsa Local No. 523, Appellees,

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

September 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Pauling, City Attorney; William M. Northcutt and Martha Rupp Carter, Deputy City Attorneys; Ellen Hinchee, Assistant City Attorney; and Robert H. Garner, Airports Attorney, Tulsa, for Appellant.

W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma and James Robert Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for Appellee, Public Employees Relations Board.

Thomas F. Birmingham of Birmingham, Morley, Weatherford & Priore, Tulsa, for Appellee, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Tulsa Local No. 523.


LAVENDER, Justice.

¶ 1 This case presents the issue of whether appellee, the Oklahoma Public Employees Relations Board (Board) was correct in ruling airport safety officers (ASOs) employed by appellant, City of Tulsa (City) are "police officers" covered by the Oklahoma Fire and Police Arbitration Act (FPAA), 11 O.S.1991, § 51-101 et seq., as amended1 and in ordering an election for...

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