by Sandulli Grace Staff | Sep 17, 2007 | Labor In The News, Sandulli Grace In The News
Recently, in Furtado v. Town of Plymouth, 69 Mass.App.Ct. 319 (June 11, 2007), the Massachusetts Appeal court ruled that a police officer can be forced to submit to a lie detector examination under threat of discipline in most circumstances. As noted in our report of...
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 Alan Shapiro | Aug 29, 2007 | Sandulli Grace In The News
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...
by Alan Shapiro | Mar 6, 2007 | Sandulli Grace In The News
Sandulli Grace P.C., in cooperation with the Massachusetts Coalition of Police, AFL-CIO, will present an educational seminar, HOW TO RUN A LOCAL POLICE UNION (WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW COULD HURT) on Monday, April 2, 2007, at the Doubletree Hotel, Westborough. This is the...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 19, 2006 | Sandulli Grace In The News
In a decision released October 6, 2006 in the case of Local 2071, International Association of Firefighters v. Town of Bellingham, No. 05-P-516, the Appeals Court rejected a public employer’s challenge to an arbitration award that ordered to provide firefighters with...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Sep 12, 2006 | Sandulli Grace In The News
Overtime Caused by Understaffing Likely to Lead To Substantial Sum The Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission (LRC) has ordered the City of Boston to pay additional wages to potentially hundreds of police officers based on the City’s unlawful failure to bargain with...
