Click below for a short primer on collective bargaining rights relating to mandatory vaccination policies. The attached overview is less than 2-pages, and it attempts to answer the primary questions related to this issue. NP MANDATORY VACCINATION PRIMER Source: Legal Mandatory Vaccination Policy? Legal Primer for Unions

Following the annual media publication of 2019 city salaries, the Worcester Police Patrolman’s Union, NEPBA Local 911, issued its annual press release explaining that some $12,000,000.00 of police compensation was not salary, but was in fact generated by officers working 244,000 extra hours above and beyond their shifts. Additionally, 2/3 of that money was paid […]

In 2018, NP attorney Gary Nolan won an arbitration case which overturned a 20-year practice that deprived NEPBA Carver’s police officers of seniority benefits. The town appealed to Superior Court, where NP attorney Peter Perroni defendend the arbitrator’s decision. The Superior Court issued its decision this week affirming the union’s victory in full, which will […]