The Nation - News from Dec. 3, 1986
Pittsburgh’s paramedics voted 105 to 19 with one abstention to approve a new contract, one day after the emergency medical workers ended a four-day strike. The new pact would freeze their pay through 1987 but give them raises in 1988, 1989 and 1990, Fraternal Assn. of Professional Paramedics officials said. Paramedics returned to the job soon after the settlement was reached Monday. Mark Zabierek, an aide to Mayor Richard Caliguiri, said the paramedics had sought pay parity with firefighters and police, and that the pact would put them close to that by 1991.
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