Massachusetts Coalition of Police, Local 165 v. Town of Northborough

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a board of selectmen’s decision not to reappoint a police officer is a nondelegable and nonarbitrable managerial prerogative pursuant to G. L. c. 41, § 97A
• finding no arbitrable dispute where “arbitrator lawfully could neither order [officer’s] reappointment nor provide a form of relief that might reasonably promote or advance the union’s goal that [he] be reappointed”
• [A]bsent \positive assurance\ that arbitration provision does not cover instant dispute, motion to compel arbitration should not be denied [citation omitted]
• town's board of selectmen's decision not to reappoint police officer ended his employment, but court concluded he had not been terminated or removed from his position
• “[ujnless there is positive assurance that an arbitration clause is not susceptible to an interpretation that covers the asserted dispute ... an order to arbitrate should not be denied”
• \A town may not by agreement abandon a nondelegable right of management\

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