Opinion
No. 97-P-2154.
March 26, 1999.
Education Reform Act. School and School Committee, Collective bargaining. Public Employment, Collective bargaining. Labor, Collective bargaining, Public employment.
The case was submitted on briefs.
Daniel R. Wojcik for the plaintiff.
John B. Cochran for the defendant.
Joseph R. Lettiere for the intervener.
We affirm the decision of the Labor Relations Commission on the authority of School Comm. of Lowell v. Local 159, Serv. Employees Intl. Union, 42 Mass. App. Ct. 690, 693 (1997). As more fully explicated in that decision, the Education Reform Act of 1993, St. 1993, c. 71, did not abrogate collective bargaining agreements with school committees insofar as they concerned terms and conditions of employment, as opposed to decisions about hiring or firing designated categories of school employees (in this case athletic coaches).
Decision of Labor Relations Commission affirmed.