Pete Carozza

Mr. Carozza is a thirty-three year veteran of the Waterbury Connecticut Fire Department and currently serves as President Emeritus of the Uniformed Professional Fire Fighters of Connecticut representing seventy local affiliates and four thousand career fire fighters in Connecticut.  He has extensive experience in labor relations and lobbying for fire fighters and public employees on the local, state and national levels.  He served on several committees of the International Association of Fire Fighters and received its organizations 2010 Local Leadership Award.  He served as Chairman of the Federation of State and Provincial Fire Fighters, IAFF, which is comprised of the leadership of each State and Provincial Association across the United States and Canada.

Mr. Carozza served as Chairman of the State of Connecticut Fire Prevention and Control Commission originally appointed by Governor O’Neill and reappointed by Governor Weicker,  Governor Rowland, Governor Rell, Governor Malloy and Governor Lamont.  The state agency is responsible for the development and delivery of state of the art educational programs designed to meet nationally recognized standards for use by fire service personnel, public educators and other first responders.

Mr. Carozza has been highly successful in contract negotiations and prevailing in numerous cases before the Connecticut State Board of Mediation and Arbitration and Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations. He has assisted legal teams in many cases before Connecticut State Superior Courts and the Connecticut State Supreme Court, and he serves as a panel member on cases referred to the Connecticut State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.  He was appointed and currently serves as a  permanent member of the state board in 2021 by Governor Lamont.

He established the first highly successful joint Labor Management Committee with the Connecticut Career Fire Chiefs Association in the 1980’s and has served as a panel member for several Connecticut municipalities in the hiring process for their Fire Chiefs. He has worked with elected and appointed officials on the local, state and federal levels.

He served as Chairman of the Connecticut MDA Jerry Lewis Telethon and Vice President of the Connecticut State AFL-CIO and received its organization’s Public Sector Leadership Award for his tireless efforts and passionate commitment to Connecticut’s workers. He has and continue’s to assist family members of fire fighters who lost their lives in the line of duty and in 2010 he was elected to the Board of Directors of The Hundred Club of Connecticut and elected President in 2022.  He was inducted into the Connecticut State Fire Fighters Hall of Fame in 2011 for his work on Fire Fighter issues on the Local, State and National levels. In 2022 he was awarded the Santo Alleano, Jr. Leadership Award and the Uniformed Professional Fire Fighters of Connecticut named their Biennial State Convention the Peter S. Carozza, Jr. State Convention and bestowed to him the honor of President Emeritus.

He has served on the senior steering committees of many political campaigns on the local, state and national levels, the Governor’s Public Safety Committee, the Governors Two Storm Panel, Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield Advisory Board, and the University of Connecticut Labor Education Center Advisory Board, and in 2012 was elected to the Executive Board of the National Conference of Public Employees Retirement Systems. He founded PAK Associates an advocacy and consulting firm.  PAK Associates handles lobbying, consulting, direct advocacy, negotiations, mediation and arbitration.

A United States Air Force veteran Mr. Carozza also serves on the board of directors of many state wide civic and charitable organizations.