文档介绍：TRANSIT LABOR
OUTLINE
1. MBTA Management Rights Legislation
2. Scheduling Work Rules at the MBTA
Nigel . Wilson /, Fall 2006 slide 1
Lecture 18
MBTA Management Rights Legislation*
Enacted in 1980 (under Section 8 of Chapter 581),
gives to the MBTA Board of Directors the following
inherent management rights:
1) to direct, appoint, employ, assign, and promote officers, agents,
and employees and to determine the standards therefore;
2) to discharge and terminate employees except on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex, age, etc.
3) to plan and determine the levels of service provided by the
authority
* Source: Warner, Marc G., "Transit Management Rights: A Critical Appraisal and
Assessment of Prospects." Transportation Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1, January 1988 (43-62).
Nigel . Wilson /, Fall 2006 slide 2
Lecture 18
MBTA Management Rights Legislation
(cont'd)
inherent management rights ...
4) to direct and evaluate the units and programs of the authority; to
classify the various positions, and to ascribe duties and
standards of productivity;
5) to develop and determine levels of staffing and training;
6) to determine whether goods or services should be made, leased,
contacted for, or purchased on either a temporary or permanent
basis;
7) to assign and apportion overtime;
8) to hire part-time employees.
Nigel . Wilson /, Fall 2006 slide 3
Lecture 18
MBTA Management Rights Legislation
(cont'd)
The law also imposed two more restrictions on the scope
of collective bargaining. These limits, in the form of
management prohibition rather than rights, included:
9) no pension benefit payments determined in a manner that
includes an employee's amount of overtime earnings; and,
10) no automatic cost-of-living salary adjustment based on changes
in the Consumer Price Index or other similar adjustments
As with the management rights, the su