Subjects of Bargaining 3-8 47 Whitman Hanson Regional School Committee, 10 MLC 1283 (1984). 48 City of Springfield, 12 MLC 1001 (1985). 49 Medford School Committee, 3 MLC 1413 (1977). 50 City of Newton, 4 MLC 1282 (1977); Town of Bridgewater, 12 MLC 1612 (1986). 51 City of Boston, 16 MLC 1437 (1989). 52 City of Boston, 3 MLC 1450 (1977). 53 City of Pittsfield, 4 MLC 1905 (1978); Board of Trustees, University of Massachusetts, 7 MLC 1577 (1980). 54 Newton School Committee, 5 MLC 1061 (1978),af’d sub. nom. School Commitee of Newton v. Labor Relations Commission, 388 Mass. 557 (1983). 55 City of Everett, 2 MLC 1471 (1976); Town of Lexington, 22 MLC 1676 (1996). 56 Abington School Committee, 21 MLC 1630 (1995); Town of Lexington, 22 MLC 1676 (1996). 57 Town of Shrewsbury, 14 MLC 1664 (1988). 58 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 22 MLC 1459 (1996). 59 City of Boston, 7 MLC 1775 (1981); Franklin School Committee, 6 MLC 1297 (1979). 60 Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts, 21 MLC 1995 (1995); Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 27 MLC 11 (2000). 61 New Bedford Housing Authority, 27 MLC 21 (2000). 62 63 School Committee of Newton v. Labor Relations Com'n, 388 Mass. 557, 447 N.E.2d 1201 (1983). 64 Id. 65 Id. 66 Id. 67 Town of West Bridgewater, 10 MLC 1040 (1983). 68 School Committee of Braintree v. Raymond, 369 Mass. 689 (1976). 69 City of Cambridge, 4 MLC 1447 (1977). 70 Town of Andover, 3 MLC 1710 (1977). 71 Groton School Committee, 1 MLC 1224 (1974). 72 Weymouth School Committee, 9 MLC 1091 (1982),af’d. sub. nom. NationalAssociation of Government Employees v. Labor Relations Commission, 17 Mass. App. Ct. 542 (1984). 73 Town of West Bridgewater, 10 MLC 1040 (1983), aff'd sub nom. West Bridgewater Police Association v. Labor Relations Commission, 18 Mass. App. Ct. 550 (1984). 74 Town of West Bridgewater, supra. (reverses City of Everett, 7 MLC 1012 (1980) and City of Lowell, 6 M LC 1173 (1979)); see, also, Town of Billerica, 8 MLC 1957 (1982) and Town of Dracut, 9 MLC 1702 (1983); compare City of Peabody, 9 MLC 1447 (1982) (regularly scheduled overtime equivalent to a wage item). 75 Town of Burlington v. Labor Relations Commission, 390 Mass. 157 (1983). 76 Cambridge School Committee, 7 MLC 1026 (1980) 77 School Committee of Braintree v. Raymond, 369 Mass. 689 (1976); School Committee of Hanover v. Curry, 369 Mass. 683 (1976). 78 City of Springfield, 12 MLC 1021 (1985). 79 Town of Dennis, 12 MLC 1027 (1985); City of Westfield, 12 MLC 1036 (1985). 80 Town of Ayer, 9 MLC 1376 (1982),af’d. sub nom. Local 346, IBPO v. Labor Relations Commision, 391 Mass. 429 (1984) 81 City of Cambridge, 4 MLC 1447 (1977). 82 Town of Danvers, 3 MLC 1559 (1977). 83 Town of Reading, 9 MLC 1730 (1983). 84 Chelmsford School Committee, 8 MLC 1515 (1981). 85 City of Malden, 20 MLC 1400 (1994). 86 Town of Dedham, 21 MLC 1011 (1994). 87 This rule was adopted in Massachusetts from the NLRB position on the subject. See, NLRB v. Wooster Division of Borg-Warner Corp ., 356 U.S. 342, 78 S.Ct. 718, 2 L.Ed.2d 823 (1958). 88 See Appendix under § 7(d) for a complete listing of the statutes which may be contravened by collective bargaining agreement. The most notable exception is that the injured on duty statute (c. 41 § 111(f)) may be contracted around. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Mandatory Subjects of Bargaining 3-9 89 The power to appoint would involve an inherent managerial prerogative which a public employer may not abandon by agreement, because allowing public employers to contract away these rights would be contrary to public policy. The subject of managerial prerogatives and rights will be further examined in the chapter on <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Rights</strong>. 90 See School Committee of Springfield v. Springfield Administrators’ Asociation, 36 Mass. App. Ct. 916 (1994) (holding that School Committee could not bargain away its statutory authority of appointment and thus could not be bound by a collective bargaining provision for binding seniority preference). 91 Lynn v. Labor Relations Commission, 43 Mass. App. Ct. 183, 681 N.E.2d 1234 (1997). 92 Town of North Attleboro v. Labor Relations Commission, 56 Mass. App. Ct. 635, 779 N.E.2d 654 (2002). 93 Town of North Attleboro v. Labor Relations Commission, supra. 94 Id. Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee