LABOR, THE LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE…
Just one day week the Alliance of MBTA Unions scored a victory against the MBTA in an arbitration about meal allowances , another neutral arbitrator ruled that the MBTA violated its collective bargaining agreement with the Alliance by excluding the Union…
The Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission appointed a new Chairman effective Monday, August 27, 2007. Michael A. Byrnes, who worked for the past six years as a business agent for the National Conference of Firemen & Oilers, Local 3, SEIU, AFL-CIO,…
A neutral arbitrator upheld the grievance regarding meal allowance compensation filed by the Alliance of MBTA Unions (decision available below), which represents certain foremen and supervisors in the quasi-public transit agency. In this case, the parties negotiated a provision in…
In Doro v. Sheet Metal Workers’ Intern. Ass’n, 2007 WL 2331941 (2nd Cir. 2007), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a union member’s claim against the international about his discipline for working in violation of his local’s rules. In…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court proved once again that it is increasingly unsympathetic to the interests of public employees with a recent decision that lets municipalities deprive certain retirees of basic health care coverage. In the case of Cioch v.…
The Massachusetts Appeals Court chipped away at the foliage surrounding management rights when it upheld the authority of an arbitrator to order the promotion of a grievant wrongfully denied a job.
In City of Somerville v. Somerville Municipal Employees Assn, #06-P-1299…
