SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO, LOCAL 509 v. LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION


431 Mass. 710 (2000)

SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO, LOCAL 509 v. LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 15, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Jacobson for the plaintiff.

John B. Cochran for the defendant.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, & COWIN, JJ.


SPINA, J.

In this case the Labor Relations Commission (commission) decided by a divided vote that a public employer did not violate its duty pursuant to G. L. c. 150E, §§ 6, 10, to bargain in good faith with the exclusive representative of its employees when the employer surveyed the employees about their use of sick leave. Commonwealth of Mass., 25 M.L.C. 48 (1998). We vacate the order of the commission. We hold that a public employer may not survey...

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