General Counsel Steamship Authority 22 Palmer Avenue Falmouth, MA 02543 Dear Attorney Kenneally: I have received the petition of Wheeler Cowperwaite appealing the response of the Steamship Authority (Authority) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, lOA; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, on June 11, 2019, Mr.
Records Access Officer Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority 22 Palmer Avenue Falmouth, MA 02543 Dear Attorney Driscoll: I have received the petition of Rich Saltzberg of the Marthas Vineyard Times appealing the response of the Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority (Authority) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, on September 11, 2020, Mr.
Records Access Officer Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority 22 Palmer Avenue Falmouth, MA 02543 Dear Attorney Driscoll: I have received the petition of Rich Saltzberg, of the Marthas Vineyard Times, appealing the response of the Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority (Authority) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). On August 30, 2022, Mr.
(See Town ofFalmouth, 20 MLC 1555 (1994)). Therefore, the Citys deliberate refusal to adhere to the duty to bargain in good faith, and to provide this bargaining unit member with the retroactive wage payment to which she is entitled, is a blatant violation of Section 10(a)(5) and derivatively 10(a)(1) of the Law.
Town ofFalmouth, 20 MLC 1555, MUP-8114 (May 6, 1994), aff'd sub nom., Town of Falmouth v. Labor Relations Commission, 42 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 (1997). If the evidence is insufficient to find an agreement or if the parties hold differing good faith interpretations of the language at issue, the Board will conclude that no repudiation has occurred.
Town ofFalmouth, 20 MLC 1555, MUP-8114 (May 6, 1994), aff'd sub nom., Town of Falmouth v. Labor Relations Commission, 42 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 (1997). If the evidence is insufficient to find an agreement or if the parties hold differing good faith interpretations of the language at issue, the Board will conclude that no repudiation has occurred.
See, e.g., Town ofFalmouth v. Civil Service Commn, 447 Mass. 814, 823, (2006); Police Dept of Boston v. Collins, 48 Mass.App.Ct. 411, rev.den., 726 N.E.2d 417 (2000); MclIsaac v. Civil Service Commn, 38 Mass App.Ct.473,477 (1995);_ rev.den.,390 Mass. Town of Watertown v. Arria, 16 Mass.App Ct. 331,334, 1102, (1983).
Town ofFalmouth y. Civil Service Commission, 61 Mass. App. Ct. 796, 800 (2004). The issue for the Commission is "not whether it would have acted as the appointing authority had acted, but whether, on the facts found by the commission, there was reasonable justification for the action taken by the appointing authority in the circumstances found by the commission to have existed when the appointing authority made its decision." Watertown y.