
    832 A.2d 315
    TOWNSHIP OF TEANECK, APPELLANT-APPELLANT, v. TEANECK FIREMEN'S MUTUAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, LOCAL NO. 42, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.
    Argued September 8, 2003
    Decided October 1, 2003.
    
      Jeffrey M. Daitz, argued the cause for appellant (Pechar & Abramson, attorneys; Mr. Daitz, David Lew and Elana Ben Dov, on the briefs).
    
      David I. Fox, argued the cause for respondent Teaneck Firemen’s Mutual Benevolent Association, Local No. 42 (Fox & Fox, attorneys; Mr. Fox and Gregory A Busch, of counsel and on the brief).
    
      Robert E. Anderson, General Counsel, argued the cause for respondent New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission {Mr. Anderson, attorney; Susan E. Galante, Deputy General Counsel, on the brief).
    
      Bruce H. Nagel, Livingston, argued the cause for amicus curiae, New Jersey State Firemen’s Mutual Benevolent Association {Nagel, Rice, Dreijuss & Mazie, attorneys).
   PER CURIAM.

The judgment is affirmed, substantially for the reasons expressed in Judge Collester’s opinion of the Appellate Division, reported at 353 N.J.Super. 289, 802 A.2d 569 (2002).

For affirming—Chief Justice PORITZ and Justices LONG, VERNIERO, LaVECCHIA, ZAZZALI, ALBIN and ' WALLACE—7.

Opposed—None.  