Excerpts from jg-tc.com:

The Illinois Labor Relations Board has ruled in favor of the Mattoon Fire Department over a dispute about privatizing ambulance service. In a 21-page ruling, the board says the ambulance service should return as it operated in 2018.

The fire department operated an advanced life support ambulance service from 2010 to 2018 and the Mattoon City Council voted to eliminate it as a cost savings measure. The Mattoon Firefighters Association, Local 691 ?filed a grievance, saying the adoption of the resolution violated its collective bargaining agreement.

The city can appeal the ruling. Read the full ruling here.