MASS. COMMUNITY COLLEGE COUNCIL v. C'WEALTH OF MASS.


420 Mass. 126 (1995)

MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITY COLLEGE COUNCIL & others vs. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS & others (and sixteen companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott M. Davis, Assistant Attorney General (Judith Fabricant, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Commonwealth & others.

Sandra Christofo Quinn for the plaintiffs.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The cases before us, consolidated for trial in the Superior Court, concern the Commonwealth's 1991 mandatory furlough program for certain State employees, adopted, pursuant to St. 1991, c. 6, § 90, in the face of a perceived fiscal crisis.

The unions commenced actions challenging the constitutionality of the furlough program, largely on the basis that the program abrogated the compensation provisions of various collective bargaining agreements...

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