Legal Opinion
Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO v. Labor Relations Commission
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 15, 2000PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
In this case the Labor Relations Commission (commission) decided by a divided vote that a public employer did not violate its duty pursuant to G. L. c. 150E, §§ 6, 10, to bargain in good faith with the exclusive representative of its employees when the employer surveyed the employees about their use of sick leave. Commonwealth of Mass., 25 M.L.C. 48 (1998). We vacate the order of the commission. We hold that a public employer may not survey its employees about mandatory subjects of collective bargaining if the employees belong to a bargaining unit represented by a union at a time when the…
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