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MassDOT Unit D (Local 368)Update: NAGE Wins in Superior Court; Contract Ratification to Proceed on Schedule
May 21, 2012
On Friday, we sent Local 368 members a letter explaining that NAGE had been required to appear in Suffolk Superior Court as a defendant against a temporary restraining order (TRO) filed against NAGE by the lawyers of some other member unions (IBEW Local 103, Teamsters Local 127, Steelworkers Local 5696) of MassDOT Unit D. The lawyers for those other unions filed the TRO to try to stop the ratification of the contract.
We appeared in court on Thursday (May 17).
Late on Friday (May 18), the judge in the case issued her decision in favor of NAGE, denying the other unions’ attempted injunction, and effectively saying the contract ratification process should proceed as scheduled.
In her decision, the judge wrote that the contract had been negotiated fairly and that all members in the bargaining unit had been treated fairly. She also wrote that, “stalling the process [of the contract ratification] may involve a loss of wages to many members who have historically been on the low side of the pay scale for this work; they may be harmed.” She further wrote, “Nothing about the contract presented thus far demonstrates an unfair allocation of resources. There appear to be sound reasons for the distinctions between the rates of pay for certain members.”
The end result, and the most important information, is that the contract ratification process is proceeding as scheduled. We will be counting ballots at NAGE headquarters at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, May 22).
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