Town of Dedham v. Labor Relations Commission

We face again the problem of meshing the new labor rights guaranteed to public employees with earlier provisions of law. On the present appeal we have to deal with an accommodation between the statute empowering the Labor Relations Commission to rectify alleged interference by municipal employers with the protected mutual-aid activities of their employees, and the older statute establishing the Civil Service Commission as a guard against arbitrary disciplining of classified employees by their public employers. The field is dynamic. While the present proceedings were taking their course, the…