FAX 77 Salem Street (H105) Malden MA 02148 781-397-7279 EMPLOYER'S LABOR RELATIONS Number REPRESENTATIVE 8. Name Dr. Charles A. Grandson IV 9. Telephone Number 781-397-6100 10,11,12,13. Address (street and No., city/town, state, and ZIP 14. FAX Number code) 781-397-7279 77 Salem Street (H105) Malden MA 02148 15. E-mail address cgrandson@maldenps.org 16. Firm/Organization Name Malden Public Schools EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION 17.

Fax Number 77 Salem Street (H105), Malden, MA 02148 781-397-7279 6. Employee Organization (if any) 7. Representative to contract 9. Telephone Number Service Employees International Union Maureen Medeiros 617-241-3300 Local 888 8. Address (street and No.,city/town, state, and ZIP code) 10. Fax Number 25 Braintree Hill Office Park, Suite 306, Braintree, MA 02184 617-241-3303 11.

See City of Malden, 5 MLC 1752, 1764, MUP-3017 (March 20, 1979) see also Melrose School Committee, 33 MLC 61, 71, MUP-02-3549 (Sept. 27, 2006) (three-month gap between employee's protected activity and the employer's adverse action was too lengthy to constitute persuasive evidence). Therefore, | cannot find probable cause to believe that the City violated the Law in the manner alleged, and dismiss this portion of the charge.

City of Malden, 5 MLC 1752, 1764, MUP-3017 (March 20, 1979). | do not find that Lymans suspension was motivated by a desire to penalize or discourage protected activity. There is no suspicious timing, history of antipathy toward union activities, disparate treatment, or deviation from past practices. There is also no nexus between Lymans general duties as SLEA President and his suspension.

Timing City of Malden, alone is insufficient to establish unlawful employer 5 MLC 1752, 1764, MUP-3017 (March 20, 1979). The Town argues that there is no direct evidence of discrimination and that the circumstantial evidence is scant and insignificant. It further argues that timing is not a factor because the verbal warning occurred several months after Kivlans resignation as Union president and the promotions were even more remote in time.

See generally, City of Malden, 32 MLC 97, 99 -100 (2005). 2 DLR Rule 14.15 Reinvestigation of Certification, 456 CMR 14.15 provides: For good cause shown, the [DLR] may reinvestigate any matter concerning any certification issued by it and, after appropriate hearing, may amend, revise or revoke such certification. Finally, the DLRs decision does not, as NAGE suggests, ignore the employees right to organize.

Board of Trustees, University of Massachusetts (Lowell), 23 MLC 273 (1997); City of Malden, 9 MLC 1073 (1982). The touchstone of community of interests is a demonstration that the employees who seek representation comprise a coherent group with employee interests sufficiently distinct from those of excluded employees to warrant separate representation.

See City of Malden, 5 MLC 1752, 1764, MUP-3017 (March 30, 1979). However, the Union also asserts that the School Committee treated Salmon in a disparate manner because it allowed other unit members to transfer into vacant teaching positions but denied each of Salmons eleven applications to do so, even though she held the necessary licenses and allegedly was the only teacher who received all exemplary evaluations during her teaching career.

City/town, State, ZIP Code Malden MA 02148 LABOR RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE 25. Name Colleen Whelan 26. Title Manager, Labor & Employee Relations 27. Address 350 Main Street 31. Telephone Number 617-591-4582 28,29,30. City/town, State, ZIP Code Malden MA 02148 34. FAX Number 617-440-7556 32. E-mail Address cwhelan@challiance.org 33. Firm/Organization Name Cambridge Health Alliance 35.

Fax Number Employer's Address (street and no., city/town, state, and zip code} 110 Pleasant Street, Malden, MA 02148 5. Employer's Labor Relations Representative 6. Howard L. Greenspan 8. Email Address 7. Telephone Number hgreenspan@greenspanlawyers.com Employer's Representative's Address (street and no., city/town, state, and zip code) |781-594-4545 9. Fax Number 200 Broadway, Suite 304, Lynnfield, MA 01940 781-598-4579 10. 11.

Murray Supervisor ofRecords September 4, 2019 SPR19/1693 Helene Bettencourt 75 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Helene Bettencourt: I have received the petition of Gary Floyd appealing the non-response of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 1OA; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1 ). Specifically, Mr.