City of Boston v. Labor Relations Commission

The city of Boston and the county of Suffolk sought review in the Superior Court (G. L. c. 150E, § 11, as in effect prior to St. 1981, c. 351, §§ 243-245) of a decision of the Labor Relations Commission (commission) by which it (i) determined that the city and county had committed practices prohibited by G. L. c. 150E, § 10(a)(1) and (5), and (ii) ordered the city and the county (among other things) to pay the attorney’s fees and expenses of the union which had represented four different bargaining units of public employees in the investigation, preparation and presentation of the charges…