City of Boston v. Boston Police Patrolmen's Ass'n

After the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement on June 30, 1990, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, Inc. (union), and the city (represented by corporation counsel) bargained for several years to an impasse that was broken when the joint labor-management committee ordered arbitration of the then remaining differences. In arbitration, the city contended that certain demands of the union were beyond *75the arbitrator’s power to grant. Two of these were granted by the arbitrator in his June, 1994, award. The city filed a petition to vacate those provisions, and the judge,…