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MA Gen L ch 150a § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 4 - Unfair Labor Practices by Employers

Section 4. It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer—  (1) To interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section three.  (2) To dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of any labor organization or contribute financial or other support to it; provided, that, subject to rules and regulations made and published by the commission pursuant to section nine R of chapter twenty-three, an employer shall not be prohibited from permitting employees to confer with him during working hours without loss of time or pay. An employer shall not be prohibited from paying regular initiation fees, dues and assessments to any labor organization in which he is a member or is eligible for membership.  (3) By discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment, to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization; provided, that nothing in this chapter shall preclude an employer from making and carrying out, except as provided in subsection six hereof, an agreement with a labor organization (not established, maintained or assisted by any action defined in this chapter as an unfair labor practice) to require as a condition of employment membership therein, if such labor organization is the representative of the employees as provided in subsection (a) of section five in the appropriate collective bargaining unit covered by such agreement when made, but no such agreement shall be deemed to apply to any employee who is not eligible for full membership and voting rights in such labor organization.  (4) To discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because he has filed charges or given testimony under this chapter.  (5) To refuse to bargain collectively with the representatives of his employees, subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of section five.  (6) To discharge or otherwise discriminate against any employee because he is not a member in good standing of a labor organization with whom the employer has made an agreement to require as a condition of employment membership therein, unless  (A) Such labor organization shall have certified to the employer that such employee—  (1) Was denied admission to, or deprived of, membership in good standing as a result of a bona fide occupational disqualification or the administration of discipline; and  (2) Has exhausted the remedies available to him within the labor organization including any right of appeal permitted by its constitution or by-laws; and  (B) Such employee shall have exhausted the remedies available to him under sections six A and six B.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 4a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 4a - Unfair Labor Practices by Individuals or Labor Organizations

Section 4A. It shall be an unfair labor practice for any person or labor organization—  (1) To seize or occupy unlawfully private property as a means of forcing settlement of a labor dispute; or  (2) To authorize or engage in any strike, slowdown, boycott or other concerted cessation of work or withholding of patronage for the purpose of—  (a) Bringing about, directly or indirectly, the commission of any unfair labor practice, or  (b) Injuring or interfering with the trade or business of any person because such person has refused to commit an unfair labor practice; or  (c) Interfering with, restraining or coercing employees in their choice or rejection of representatives for the purpose of collective bargaining after the commission has determined in a proceeding under section five that such employees do not desire to be represented by such labor organization; or  (3) To aid in any concerted activities of the types described in this section by giving direction or guidance in the conduct thereof or by providing funds for the payment of strike, unemployment or other benefits to persons participating therein; or  (4) To interfere with, restrain or coerce an employer or employee in the exercise of a right guaranteed under this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 4b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 4b - Refusal to Bargain Collectively With Employer

Section 4B. It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization to refuse to bargain collectively with any employer who has recognized it as the exclusive representative of employees in a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 4c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 4c - Health Care Facilities; Unfair Labor Practices by Employers or Employees

Section 4C. It shall be an unfair labor practice:—  (1) For any health care facility or any charitable home for the aged to institute, declare or cause, or to attempt to institute, declare or cause, any lockout of any of its nurse or nonprofessional employees; or  (2) For any nurse or nonprofessional employee of a health care facility or of any charitable home for the aged, or for a representative of any such employee, or for any other person, to engage in, induce or encourage any strike, work stoppage, slowdown or withholding of customary goods or services by such employees or other persons at such health care facility or home.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 5a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 5a - Agricultural Workers; Representatives

Section 5A. In the case of a person engaged in agriculture, as hereinafter defined, and having a permanent hired work force of more than four agricultural workers who are not members of his family, the provisions of section five shall apply; provided that only the employer unit shall be deemed appropriate for collective bargaining purposes; and provided further that nothing in this section nor in said section five shall be construed as constituting authority for any action or proceeding to nullify, amend or otherwise modify any contract or agreement, or any provision thereof, which is reached by any such person for the seasonal employment of agricultural workers with the official sanction either of the government of any territorial possession of the United States or of the United States department of labor. As used in this section, the term ''agriculture'' includes horticulture, floriculture and any other commercial enterprise involving the production of food or fiber.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 6a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 6a - Denial of Admission To, and Suspension or Expulsion From, a Labor Organization; Proceedings for Relief; Voting Rights of Non-Participants in Insurance Plans and of Local Organizations in Conventions

Section 6A. Any employee who is required as a condition of employment to be a member in good standing of a labor organization may file with the commission a charge alleging (1) that, although eligible to membership, he has been unfairly denied admission to, or unfairly suspended or expelled from membership in, such organization for reasons other than malfeasance in office or non-payment of regular initiation fees, dues, or assessments and (2) that such labor organization has requested, or is about to request, his employer to discharge or otherwise discriminate against him because of his failure to maintain membership in good standing in such organization; provided, that such charge shall be filed not more than fifteen days after notice of such request has been given the employee by the labor organization. Upon filing of such charge, the commission shall have power to issue and cause to be served upon the labor organization a complaint stating the charge in that respect and containing a notice of hearing. The notice shall be given and the subsequent proceedings shall be conducted in the manner provided in section six. If upon all the evidence the commission shall determine that the employee was unfairly denied admission to membership in such organization, or that such discipline—  (1) Was imposed by the labor organization in violation of its constitution and by-laws; or  (2) Was imposed without a fair trial, including an adequate hearing and opportunity to defend; or  (3) Was not warranted by the offense, if any, committed by the employee against the labor organization; or  (4) Is not consistent with the established public policy of the commonwealth;  then the commission shall state its determinations and shall issue and cause to be served on the labor organization an order requiring it, in its discretion, either to admit or restore the employee to membership in good standing together with full voting rights, or else to refrain from seeking to bring about any discrimination against him in his employment because he is not a member in good standing, and to return to him such union dues and assessments as may have been collected from him during the period of his suspension or expulsion from the union. If the commission shall not make such a determination after hearing, it shall enter an order dismissing the charge filed by the employee.  Nothing contained in this section or in section four shall be deemed to require a labor organization as a condition of making or enforcing a contract requiring membership therein as a condition of employment, to accord to non-participants in an insurance plan the right to vote on questions pertaining thereto or to grant local organizations voting rights in a convention proportionate to their membership.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 6b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 6b - Review of Order of Commission

Section 6B. Any person aggrieved by a final order of the commission under section six A granting or denying relief, may obtain a review of such order in the manner provided in section six.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 6c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 6c - Payment of Dues and Assessments During Disciplinary and Legal Proceedings

Section 6C. During any disciplinary proceedings within a labor organization or any proceedings under sections six A and six B, or either of them, the employee shall continue to pay the regular union dues and assessments.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 8 - Interference With Member or Agent of Commission

Section 8. Any person who shall wilfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the commission or any of its agents or agencies in the performance of duties pursuant to this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 9 - Right to Strike

Section 9. Nothing in this chapter, except as provided in sections four A and four C, shall be construed so as to interfere with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 9a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 9a - Grievances or Disputes Between Health Care Facilities and Nurses

Section 9A. (a) In the event of the existence of a grievance or a dispute between a health care facility or a charitable home for the aged and an organization designated or selected as the exclusive representative of any nurse or nonprofessional employee of such facility or of such home for the purposes of collective bargaining in accordance with section five, and if such grievance or dispute has not been settled by collective bargaining after reasonable effort so to do by either party, and if there is no collective bargaining agreement in force between the parties, or such an agreement is in force but it contains no provision to submit the current grievance or dispute, as the case may be, to arbitration, the procedures provided by chapter one hundred and fifty C shall be available, on application of an aggrieved party, to determine the controversy as though the parties had negotiated a collective bargaining agreement containing a provision as described in section one of said chapter one hundred and fifty C to submit to arbitration and such agreement were then in force; provided, however, that the procedures provided by said chapter one hundred and fifty C shall not be available to assist or require arbitration of any grievance or dispute involving a health care facility owned and operated by the commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof; and provided, further, that in the case of a grievance or a dispute involving any health care facility not owned and operated by the commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof or involving a charitable home for the aged it shall not be a ground for refusing to grant an order for arbitration under paragraph (a) of section two of said chapter one hundred and fifty C, or for granting an application for stay of an arbitration proceeding under paragraph (b) of said section, or for vacating an award under clause (5) of paragraph (a) of section eleven of said chapter one hundred and fifty C, that there is no agreement to arbitrate.  (b) As used in this section the word ''grievance'' shall mean any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the interpretation, application or breach of the provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement between a health care facility or charitable home for the aged and any of its nurse or nonprofessional employees or their representatives; the word ''dispute'' shall mean all other controversies, claims or disputes between a health care facility or charitable home for the aged and any of its nurse or nonprofessional employees, or their representatives, concerning rates of pay, hours or other terms or conditions of employment in such facility or home, including, but not limited to, controversies, claims or disputes arising in the course of negotiation, fixing, maintaining, changing or arranging any such terms or conditions.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 10 - Conflict of Laws; Federal Statutes and Regulations

Section 10. (a) Wherever the application of the provisions of any other law of this commonwealth conflicts with the application of the provisions of this chapter, this chapter shall prevail.  (b) This chapter shall not be deemed applicable to any unfair labor practice involving employees who are subject to and protected by the Federal Railway Labor Act, or to any unfair labor practice governed exclusively by the national labor relations act or other federal statute or regulations issued pursuant thereto, unless the federal agency administering such act, statute or regulation has declined to assert jurisdiction thereof, or except where such federal agency has conceded to the commission jurisdiction over any such case or proceedings.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 11 - Partial Invalidity

Section 11. If any provision of this chapter, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
MA Gen L ch 150a § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150a - Labor Relations|Section 12 - Title of Statute

Section 12. This chapter may be cited as the ''State Labor Relations Law''.
MA Gen L ch 150b § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150b - Peaceful Settlement of Industrial Disputes Dangerous to Public Health and Safety|Section 1 - Findings and Public Policy

Section 1. The general court hereby finds that the distribution of food, fuel, water, electric light and power, gas, and hospital and medical services is essential to the public health and safety and that the settlement of industrial disputes which threaten substantial interruption of such distribution is therefore affected with a public interest; that the adjustment of differences concerning wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment which might lead to such disputes can best be accomplished by encouraging collective bargaining between employers and representatives freely designated or selected by their employees; but that the intervention of government is necessary to protect the public health and safety whenever an industrial dispute which has not been settled by collective bargaining threatens an immediate and substantial interruption in the production or distribution of food, fuel, water, electric light or power, gas, or hospital or medical services which would dangerously curtail their availability in any community.  It is therefore declared to be the policy of the commonwealth (a) to place primary responsibility upon the employers and representatives freely designated or selected by employees for the avoidance of any interruption in the production or distribution of food, fuel, water, electric light and power, gas, or hospital or medical services resulting from differences concerning wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment and (b) in the event that a peaceful adjustment of such differences is not accomplished by collective bargaining, to provide procedures for government intervention and the establishment of wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment without any interruption in the production or distribution of such goods or services which would dangerously curtail their availability in any community.
MA Gen L ch 150b § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150b - Peaceful Settlement of Industrial Disputes Dangerous to Public Health and Safety|Section 2 - Definitions

Section 2. When used in this chapter—  ''Person'' includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers.  ''Employer'' includes any person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly, but shall not include the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, or any labor organization (other than when acting as an employer), or any one acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization.  ''Employee'' shall include any employee, and shall not be limited to the employees of a particular employer, and shall include any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute, and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment.  ''Representative of employees'' means any person or labor organization designated or selected for the purpose of collective bargaining by a majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes.  ''Labor dispute'' includes any controversy concerning rates of pay, wages, hours or terms, tenure or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.  ''Essential goods or services'' means food, fuel, water, electric light or power, gas, and hospital or medical services.  ''Production'' includes production, manufacture, mining, handling, transporting, or in any other manner working on, and shall also include any process or occupation necessary to such production.  ''Distribution'' includes distributing, transporting, handling, storing, selling at wholesale or retail, or furnishing and shall also include any process or occupation necessary to such distribution.
MA Gen L ch 150b § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150b - Peaceful Settlement of Industrial Disputes Dangerous to Public Health and Safety|Section 5 - Relief Against Violations of Statutes; Injunction

Section 5. (a) No person, other than the commonwealth as provided in subsection (b) hereof and except as provided in subsection (c) of section four, shall be entitled to legal or equitable relief in any court of the commonwealth as a result of a violation of any provision of this chapter.  (b) The superior court in an action by the commonwealth shall have jurisdiction to restrain and enjoin violations of this chapter and such jurisdiction shall not be limited by the provisions concerning labor disputes contained in section twenty C of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, sections one and six of chapter two hundred and fourteen, and sections thirteen A and thirteen B of chapter two hundred and twenty; provided that such actions shall be brought by direction of the governor and not otherwise.
MA Gen L ch 150b § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150b - Peaceful Settlement of Industrial Disputes Dangerous to Public Health and Safety|Section 6 - Partial Invalidity

Section 6. If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
MA Gen L ch 150b § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150b - Peaceful Settlement of Industrial Disputes Dangerous to Public Health and Safety|Section 7 - Employees Subject to Federal Railway Labor Act

Section 7. None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any dispute involving employees who are subject to and protected by the Federal Railway Labor Act.
MA Gen L ch 150b § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 150b - Peaceful Settlement of Industrial Disputes Dangerous to Public Health and Safety|Section 8 - Fees, Expenses and Facilities for Moderators and Members of Commissions and Boards

Section 8. Any person appointed by the governor to serve as a moderator or as a member of a special commission or as an impartial member of an emergency board or any person selected as an impartial member of an emergency board under the provisions of this act, shall receive a per diem fee of fifty dollars plus reasonable and necessary expenses. The director of the department of labor relations is authorized and directed to arrange for any facilities required by such boards or moderators including the place for the hearing and stenographic transcripts of the hearing and the commonwealth shall pay for the same upon the certification of the director.