Chapter 150A

Section 1. The denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obs…

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 em…

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…

Section 12. This chapter may be cited as the ''State Labor Relations Law''.

Section 2. When used in this chapter— (1) The term ''person'' includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers. (2) The word ''employer'' shall include any person acting in the intere…

Section 3. Employees, or a single employee in a one-man unit, shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of c…

Section 3A. Anything contained in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding as regards sections one, two, three, four (1), four (4), ten, eleven and twelve, the term ''employee'' shall include any individual, over the age of seventeen, employed in the domestic service of any f…

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 contribut…

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 cessati…

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.

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…

Section 5. (a) Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes, including representatives selected or designated by an individual in a one-man unit, shall be the exclusive re…

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 s…

Section 6. (a) The commission is empowered, as hereinafter provided, to prevent any person from engaging in any unfair labor practice listed in sections four, four A, four B and four C affecting industry, trade or health care. This power shall be exclusive, and shall not be affec…

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 …

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.

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.

Section 7. For the purpose of all hearings and investigations which, in the opinion of the commission, are necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers vested in it by sections five, six, six A and six B— (1) The commission, or its duly authorized agents or agencies, shall…

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 imprison…

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.

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 su…