33rd Annual Workshop for Public Sector Labor Relations Specialists

Saturday, May 6, 2006
Registration: 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Harvard Law School
Langdell Hall, North Classroom
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Free parking available at Everett St parking garage, click here for map

Sponsored by: Labor & Employment Law Section

This annual program is designed to familiarize labor relations practitioners with current trends in collective bargaining and other issues affecting public employees.

Featuring:

• Significant Labor Law Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court
  • Speaker: Marc D. Greenbaum, Esq.
    Professor of Law
    Suffolk University Law School
    
• Review of Decisions and Recent Litigation of the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission
  • Speakers: Cynthia A. Spahl, Esq.
    Chief Counsel
    Labor Relations Commission

Session I: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Newly Constituted Public Sector Labor Agencies

This past year has seen some departures and new appointments to the governing bodies of the Labor Relations Commission, Board of Conciliation and Arbitration and the Joint Labor Management Committee, the tripartite public sector labor relations agencies.

Members of the agencies will engage in an interactive discussion to identify current issues and to outline their vision for accomplishing agency goals.

Session II Show Me the Money: The Duty to Fund Collective Bargaining Agreements

Practitioners representing the viewpoints of arbitrators, public entities and public employee unions will review legal decisions governing the duty to fund public sector labor agreements, including:

• Appropriations necessary to fund cost items;
• Funding minimum staffing clauses;
• Retroactive wage increases; and
• Duty to support the agreement.

A municipal finance expert will outline the various line items av ailable in municipal budgets to fund unanticipated costs. Panelists will also discuss the impact of the recent fiscal crisis in Springfield on funding union contracts.

The session will be followed by an interactive question and answer session.

Program Co-chairs

Amy Laura Davidson, Esq.
Sandulli Grace, P.C.

Peter J. Berry, Esq.
Deutsch Williams Brooks DeRensis & Holland, P.C.

Marc D. Greenbaum, Esq.
Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School

Panelists

The Honorable Samuel E. Zoll
Chairman
Joint Labor Management Committee

James Costello
Senior Labor Representative
Joint Labor Management Committee

Jane McLaughlin
Senior Management Representative
Joint Labor Management Committee

John F. Jesensky
Chairman
Labor Relations Commission

Hugh Reilly
Commissioner
Labor Relations Commission

James F. Kelley, Esq.
Chairman
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration

John B. Cochran, Esq.
Arbitrator

Robert N. Addelson
Assistant Town Manager for Finance
Town of Lexington

David M. Connelly, Esq.
Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP

Harold L. Lichten, Esq.
Pyle, Rome Lichten & Ehrenberg, P.C.

Kimberly A. Rozak, Esq.
Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, LLP

Alan H. Shapiro, Esq.
Sandulli Grace, P.C.

Program Price

$115