Nashua Teachers Union v. Nashua School District

BROCK, C.J., and THAYER, J.,

dissenting: The majority concludes that although there is no explicit legislative authorization, the absence of agency fees from the list of unfair labor practices indicates the legislature’s intention to allow such fees. In addition, the majority interprets the statutory phrase “other conditions of employment” to implicitly include agency fees. We respectfully disagree. Although this court acts as “the final arbiter of the intent of the legislature as expressed in the words of a statute considered as a whole,” Cheever v. Southern N.H. Regional Med. Ctr., 141 N.H.…