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....
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Aug 16, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
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,...
