JOINT LABOR MANATEMENT COMMITTEE INTEREST ARBITRATION AWARDJoint Labor Management Committee Arbitration Award • November 22nd, 2022
The City of Woburn (City) and the Woburn Fire Fighters Association, IAFF, Local 971 (Union) are parties to a collective bargaining agreement effective between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2011. They have been without a contract since then. After collective bargaining failed to bring about an agreement over the terms of a successor agreement the parties agreed to proceed “directly and voluntarily” to conventional, issues by issue arbitration subject to a list of issues approved by the JLMC. The undersigned Neutral Arbitrator was appointed as were the undersigned Management and Labor arbitration panel members.
