City of Everett, 26 MLC 25 (1999). Here, the Town and Union entered into a settlement agreement on M.N.s behalf that stated in pertinent part: The employer agrees to provide a neutral reference for employee confirming the dates of employment, position held and final salary.

City of Everett, 26 MLC 25, 27, MUP-1542 (July 22, 1999). If the language at issue in the agreement is ambiguous, the CERB will look to the underlying bargaining history to determine whether there was a clear agreement between the parties. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 18 MLC 1161, SUP-3356, SUP-3439 (October 16, 1991). Although both parties assert that the MOA is unambiguous, they provide differing good faith interpretations of the MOA.

City of Everett, 26 MLC 25, 27, MUP-1542 (July 22, 1999). If the language at issue in the agreement is ambiguous, the Commonwealth Employment Relations Board (CERB) will look to the underlying bargaining history to determine whether there was a clear agreement between the parties. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 18 MLC 1161, SUP-3356, SUP-3439 (October 16, 1991).

City of Everett, 47 MLC 313, MCR-20-8331 (June 6 30, 2021) (citing Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 17 MLC 1650). No purpose would be 7 served by proceeding with an election when there exists unremedied, alleged conduct 8 that would tend to interfere with the free electoral choice of employees.

City of Boston, 26 MLC 215, 216, MUP-2081 (May 31, 2000); City of Everett, 26 MLC 25, MUP-1542 (July 22, 1999). Here, the Union has failed to substantiate that a meeting of the minds occurred with respect to the MOU drafted by Hynes on or about April 4, 2018.

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Ct. 166 (1985); City of Worcester, 38 MLC 190, 195 (2012); Town of Natick, 28 MLC 85, 86 (2001); Town of Arlington, 16 MLC 1350, 1351 (1989); City of Everett, 8 MLC 1393, 1394 (1981). Likewise, the Town of Shrewsbury had a consistent practice of converting vacation time to sick leave. The conversions rarely happened, but that is only because a firefighters illness while on vacation rarely happened.

A condition of employment may be found despite sporadic or infrequent activity where a consistent practice that applies to rare circumstances followed each Commonwealth time that the preceding the practice of Massachusetts, 23 MLC at 172; City of Everett, MUP-3807 (June 4, 1981), affd this standard circumstances 8 MLC is recurs. 1036, 1038, 8 MLC 1393, MUP-3807 (October 21, 1981) (applying with respect to practice of allowing time off to take promotional

City of Everett, 27 MLC 150-151 (2001); Town of Bolton, 25 MLC 62, 65 (1998). 147, To determine whether employees share a community of interest, the DLR considers factors like similarity of skills and functions, similarity of pay and working conditions, common supervision, work contact, and similarity of training and experience.

City of Everett, 27 MLC 150-151 (2001); Town of Bolton, 25 MLC 62, 65 (1998). 147, To determine whether employees share a community of interest, the DLR considers factors like similarity of skills and functions, similarity of pay and working conditions, common supervision, work contact, and similarity of training and experience.

Colantuoni and Attorney Smith filed a charge of discrimination at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination against the City of Everett and the Everett Public Schools concerning her employment.2 Ms. Colantuoni and her counsel also filed a complaint in United States District Court entitled Kimberly Colantuoni v.