by Sandulli Grace Staff | Sep 3, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
In Massachusetts, public school teachers do not obtain Professional Teacher Status (otherwise known as tenure or protection against discharge without just cause) until they teach four consecutive years without being terminated. Teachers automatically attain PTS if...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Aug 30, 2007 | Sandulli Grace In The News
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 president and...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Aug 29, 2007 | Labor In The News
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, has been...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Aug 28, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
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 this case,...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Aug 17, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
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....
