Legal Opinion
Local Division 589, Amalgamated Transit Union v. Massachusetts
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 30, 1981No. Nos. 81-1180, 81-1198 and 81-1219PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
This case raises two difficult and important sets of questions concerning collective bargaining and rapid transit. First, can the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enact statutes that are inconsistent with assurances that its Transit Authority previously gave the Secretary of Labor as part of an application for federal grant money? Second, do those Massachusetts statutes unconstitutionally impair pre-existing collective bargaining contracts? We find that insofar as federal law is concerned, the state statutes are valid.
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Since 1912 appellant, Local 589 of the Amalgamated…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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