ARLINGTON v. BOARD OF CONCILIATION & ARBITRATION


370 Mass. 769 (1976)

352 N.E.2d 914

TOWN OF ARLINGTON vs. BOARD OF CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION & others (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 10, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Maher, Assistant Town Counsel, for the town of Arlington.

Andrew J. McElaney, Assistant Attorney General, for the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration.

Warren H. Pyle for Local 1297, International Association of Firefighters & others.

Herbert P. Gleason, Corporation Counsel, & Paul T. Edgar, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the city of Boston, and D.M. Moschos, Special Assistant City Solicitor, for the city of Worcester, amici curiae, joined in a brief.

Present: REARDON, QUIRICO, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


REARDON, J.

These cases were consolidated and are here on a reservation and report by a judge of the Superior Court without decision. An application for direct appellate review was granted. The actions were brought by the town of Arlington (town) to set aside "last and best offer" arbitration awards issued pursuant to St. 1973, c. 1078, § 4 (the act), which established wages, vacation pay, sick leave, and other conditions of employment for police officers and...

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