Service Employees International Union v. Labor Relations Commission

The plaintiff union (Local 509) has appealed, pursuant to G. L. c. 150E, § 11 (1988 ed.), from a decision of the Labor Relations Commission (commission) that dismissed a complaint charging the Commonwealth as an employer with engaging in prohibited practices defined in G. L. c. 150E, § 10 (a). In this appeal, which we transferred here from the Appeals Court, the union challenges the commission’s determination that the Commonwealth acted lawfully, and not unilaterally in derogation of the Commonwealth’s duty to bargain in good faith, when it declined to permit certain successful individual job…