Lruduile, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR RELATIONS 19 STANIFORD STREET, 18" FLOOR BOSTON, MA 02114 PROCEDURE FOR SCHEDULING OF THE HEARING Case No.: MUP-13-2835, MUP-13-2836 Charging Party: Douglas Teachers Association Respondent: Douglas School Committee Date Filed: 05/20/2013 The parties are directed to confer as soon as possible in order to schedule the Hearing in the above-referenced case.
Houle, Staff Counsel MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION 20 Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108 617-878-8289 lhoule@massteacher.org October 10, 2014 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that a true copy of the above document has been served via e-filing on October 10, 2014 to counsel for all parties.
Telephone Number Will Evans 617-878-8286 Address (street and No., city/town, state, and ZIP code) 20 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 508-476-1070 10. Fax Number 02108 11. This charge is filed against (check one) 12.
Any questions concerning this notice or compliance with its provisions may be Staniford Street, Boston, MA directed to the Department Labor Relations, Charles F. Hurley Building, 1" Floor, 19 02114 (Telephone: (617) 626-7132).
Billard: I have received your petition appealing the response of the City ofBoston Police Department (Department) to your request for public records. G. L. c. 66 1O(b ); see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(2). Specifically, you requested copies of police reports related to two specifically named individuals. The Department provided certain records and denied access to others pursuant to Exemptions (a), (c) and (f) of the Public Records Law.
We understand that the VFGMP receives funds from the City ofBoston; however, the receipt of public funds alone is an insufficient basis upon which to find that the VFGMP is subject to the Open Meeting Laws requirements. See OML 2015-23.
See OML Declination 2-26-21 (City ofBoston); OML Declination 4-13-20 (Town of Plymouth); OML Declination 11-2-15 (Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries). The Cambridge Highlands Neighborhood Association liaison whom you identified in your two complaints also is not a public body member subject to the Open Meeting Law. See OML 2019-152, n.3; OML Declination 5-16-19 (Bourne Town Clerk).
NU Suffolk County, 394 Mass. 624, 629-31 (1984) (iti is a purely judicial: function to order the fulfilment of the statutory obligation of the city ofBoston to provide a suitable " jail under the mandate of G. L. c. 34, Section 3. It falls to the judicial branch to insure , compliance with this statute.
See City ofBoston, 35 MLC 289, 291 (2009) (citing MacCormack v. Boston Edison Co., 423 Mass. 652, 662 (1996)(plaintiff failed to prove adverse action element of a prima facie case of unlawful retaliation where there was no evidence that he had been disadvantaged in respect to salary, grade, or other objective terms and conditions of employment); Sallis v.
City of Holyoke, 35 MLC 153, 156, MUP-04-4503 (Jan. 9, 2009); Town of Carver, 35 MLC 29, 47, MUP-03-3094 (June 30, 2008); City ofBoston, 35 MLC 289, 291 , MUP-04- 4077 (May 20, 2009); Town of Clinton, 12 MLC 1361, 1365, MUP-5659 (Nov. 9, 1985). The only element at issue here is whether the Town' s actions were motivated by a desire to penalize or discourage the protected activity.
City of Holyoke, 35 MLC 153, 156, MUP-04-4503 (Jan. 9, 2009); Town of Carver, 35 MLC 29, 47, MUP-03-3094 (June 30, 2008); City ofBoston, 35 MLC 289, 291 , MUP-04- 4077 (May 20, 2009); Town of Clinton, 12 MLC 1361, 1365, MUP-5659 (Nov. 9, 1985). The only element at issue here is whether the Town' s actions were motivated by a desire to penalize or discourage the protected activity.
Hurley Building 19 Staniford Street, 1* Floor Boston, MA 02114 Ferruccio Romeo 9 Hitching Hill Rd Saugus, MA 01906 RE: April 26, 2019 MUP-19-7261, Town of Winthrop On April 11, 2019, | filed a charge of prohibited practice with the Department of Labor Relations (DLR) alleging that the Town of Winthrop (Town) had violated Section 10(a)(5) and, derivatively, 10(a)(1) of M.G.L. c. 150E (the Law) pursuant to information | received at a Local Union meeting
Lichten and Liss-Riordan, P.C. 729 Boylston Street, Suite 2000 Boston, MA 02116 Ferruccio Romeo 9 Hitching Hill Road Saugus, MA 01906 Howard Greenspan, Esq. 220 Broadway, Suite 304 Lynnfield, MA 01940 Saugus, MA 01906 Re: MUP-19-7261, Town of Winthrop and Ferruccio Romeo Dear Mr. Lichten, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Romeo and Mr.
City ofBoston, 25 11 MLC 105, 120, MCR-4537 (January 22, 1999). To establish the requisite degree of 12 conflict necessary for severance, the CERB considers whether the petitioned-for 13 employees play no role in the representation process, cannot participate on the 14 negotiating team, and have their interests subordinated by the incumbent union to the 15 interests of the other employees in the unit.
Municipal Court of City ofBoston, 359 Mass 211 (1971).The Commission relied on and applied correct principles of law. Satisfied as | am that the decision of the commissioner was not based upon an error of law, and that it was supported by substantial evidence, I am persuaded that the bypass decision was not arbitrary, or capricious, or an abuse of discretion, and the Commissioner was right to so find.
This Court doubts that the citizens of the City ofBoston who count on police protection, would agree. 3. Lastly, there is the public interest. This Court cannot say it better than the following: There is no more sensitive issue than the psychological fitness of law enforcement officers. A police officers badge endows powers of arrest, and an officers gun simultaneously poses great assurance and grave risk to the public.