City ofQuincy/Quincy City Hospital, 15 MLC 1239, MUP-6490 (November 9, 1988). In these shared work situations, there is no obligation to bargain over every incidental variation in job assignments between unit and non-unit personnel. Rather, bargaining must occur only in situations where there is a calculated displacement of bargaining unit work. City of Boston, 10 MLC 1539, 1541, MUP-4967 (April 24, 1984).
City ofQuincy/Quincy City Hospital, 15 MLC 1239, 1241, MUP-6490 (Nov. 9, 1988); 18 City of Boston, 10 MLC 1539, 1541-42, MUP-4967 (April 24, 1984). Thus, when unit 19 employees have traditionally performed an ascertainable percentage of the disputed 20 work, and there is a significant reduction in the portion of work performed by unit 21 employees, coupled with a corresponding increase in the work performed by non-unit 26 H.O.
City ofQuincy, involve 10 MLC questions 1027, 1031 of representation (1983). Severance petitions inherently that are not properly resolved in a unit Clarification petition. Town of Athol, 32 MLC at 52. On the other hand, the Board is statutorily obligated pursuant to Section 3 of the Law to fashion units that are consistent with stable and continuing labor relations.
Boston School Committee, 22 MLC 1365, 1375, MUP-8125 (January 9, 1996); City ofQuincy, 17 MLC 1603, 1608, MUP-6710 (March 20, 1991). The parties dispute whether there was an oral agreement in place that permitted the BPHC to consider external candidates for Sergeant positions and allow those candidates to sit for the promotional exam.
Boston School Committee, 22 MLC 1365, 1375, MUP-8125 (January 9, 1996); City ofQuincy, 17 MLC 1603, 1608, MUP-6710 (March 20, 1991). If the evidence is insufficient to find an agreement underlying the matter in dispute, or if the parties hold differing good faith interpretations of the terms of the agreement, the Board will not find a repudiation. City of Everett, 26 MLC 25, 27, MUP-1542 (July 22, 1999).
Boston School Committee, 22 MLC 1365, 1375, MUP-8125 (January 9, 1996); City ofQuincy, 17 MLC 1603, 1608, MUP-6710 (March 20, 1991). If the evidence is insufficient to find an agreement underlying the matter in dispute, or if the parties hold differing good faith interpretations of the terms of the agreement, the CERB will not find a repudiation. City of Everett, 26 MLC 25, 27, MUP-1542 (July 22, 1999).
City ofQuincy, 19 MCSR 1 (2006), decision affd, 2007 WL 5445210 (Mass.Sup.Ct.), judgment affd, 73 Mass.App.Ct. 1122 (2009) (unpublished), the Commission upheld the bypass of a candidate for appointment as a firefighter who was an occasional smoker.
City ofQuincy, CSC Case No. G2-10-3 (2011), the Commission found that there was no fair and impartial evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates for Fire Chief through a reasonably designed, objective process free of political or personal bias, as civil service law requires.
City ofQuincy, 28 MSCR 291 (2015)(CSC declines request for investigation where the Citys decision was free of any personal or political bias). In this case, there is no demonstrated bias against veterans. Every veteran on the FF List who wanted the position signed the list. There is no evidence to the contrary. Every veteran who signed the 14 vacancy FF List is within the top 14 rankings.
City ofQuincy/Quincy City Hospital, 15 MLC 1239, MUP-6490 (November 9, 1988). There is no obligation to bargain over every incidental variation in job assignments between unit and non-unit personnel. Rather, bargaining must occur only in situations where there is a calculated displacement of bargaining unit work. City of Boston, 10 MLC 1539, 1541, MUP-4967 (April 24, 1984).