LOCAL NO. 1710, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS, AFL-CIO v. CHICOPEE


430 Mass. 417 (1999)

LOCAL NO. 1710, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS, AFL-CIO v. CITY OF CHICOPEE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

December 13, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Rome for the plaintiff.

Barbara J. Sweeney for the defendant.

Donald Siegel, Mary T. Sullivan, Ann Clarke, & David Rome, for Massachusetts AFL-CIO & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, & IRELAND, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

This is an appeal by Local No. 1710, International Association of Fire Fighters (union), from the denial by a Superior Court judge of its motion to compel arbitration. G. L. c. 150C, § 2 (a). The union claims that the judge's decision regarding the timeliness of the grievance was a ruling on "procedural" rather than "substantive" arbitrability in violation of the plain meaning of G. L. c. 150C, §...

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