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Unions press committee to extend just‑cause and promotion rights to MWRA employees
Summary
Labor groups and legislators urged the committee to amend the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority enabling statute to grant MWRA employees just‑cause protection and the ability to arbitrate promotion disputes, aligning them with other state employees.
Union representatives, MWRA employees and senators told the Joint Committee on Public Service that the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s enabling statute should be amended to provide MWRA workers the same disciplinary protections and promotion rights available to other state employees under Chapter 150E.
Jim Durkin, legislative director for AFSCME Council 93, described the absence of a just‑cause standard for MWRA workers as “the Wild West,” saying management can terminate workers without progressive discipline,…
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