SJC Rejects Existence Of Union Member-Union Privilege

In Chadwick v. Duxbury Public Schools, 475 Mass. 645 (2016), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) declined to recognize the existence of a “union member-union” privilege within M.G.L. c. 150E (collective bargaining statute), and declined to create such privilege under common law. While conceding that a union member-union privilege has never been recognized in Massachusetts, [...]