2006 Massachusetts Code - Chapter 23C — Section 3. Powers of chairman; joint labor management committees; interchange of members.

Section 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the chairman of the board of conciliation and arbitration shall, subject to appropriation, appoint and have power to remove, a vice chairman and such mediators, investigators, arbitrators, and other employees and individuals as are necessary for the operation of the board, and may utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services, as may from time to time be needed and said chairman shall assign duties and responsibilities to such individuals. In the absence of the chairman, the vice chairman shall have the duties and responsibilities of the chairman. The employees of the board and the employees of the joint labor management committee, established under the provisions of section four A of chapter one thousand and seventy-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-three, and the employees of any other joint labor management committee established under the provisions of any other general or special law, may be interchanged for the purposes of resolving a particular labor dispute in the most efficient and expeditious manner, and assigned various duties and responsibilities at the discretion of said chairman after consultation with the chairman of the joint labor management committee which is involved in the interchange.