6 documents · ·Department of Labor Relations ·Boston Police Superior Officers Federation, 24 MLC 89, MUP-9234 (April 1, 1998) (Disciplinary procedures are mandatory subjects of bargaining because the outcome of those procedures may affect an employees job security and the right to be promoted).
The DLR does not oversee purely internal affairs of a union. Boston Police Patrolmens Association, 8 MLC 1993, MUPL-2050 and MUPL-2049 (1982). The DLR can evaluate whether the challenged action is within the legitimate domain of internal union affairs. Id. at 2000. For example, a Union was found to have violated Section 10(b)(1) of the Law by conditioning nomination and election for union officers on participation in an unlawful strike.