LOCAL 2071, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS v. TOWN OF BELLINGHAM


450 Mass. 1011 (2007)

LOCAL 2071, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS v. TOWN OF BELLINGHAM & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

December 7, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert R. Mason for town of Bellingham.

Robert L. Quinan, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for Joint Labor-Management Committee.

Harold L. Lichten (Leah M. Barrault with him) for the plaintiff.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Patrick N. Bryant for Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, Inc, & another.

John Foskett for Massachusetts Municipal Association.

Thomas A. Woodley & Daniel P. DiJames, of the District of Columbia, for International Association of Fire Fighters, AFL-CIO, & another.


We granted further appellate review to consider the judgment of the Superior Court requiring the town of Bellingham to implement a scheduling change for its fire fighters that had been proposed by their union and awarded by the joint labor-management committee (committee). The change involved a move to twenty-four hour shifts. The town maintained that such a shift change was a management prerogative and, therefore, beyond the jurisdiction of the committee.

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