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...MBTA has invited James Smith of the T's Advisory Board to travel to Washington along with general counsel Joseph Elcock. Recently, MBTA chairman Barry Locke has come under fire from the Advisory Board, which refused to increase the T's operating budget by a requested $40 million...
...MBTA decided to negotiate under the 1978 law this time, a move that did not sit well with either the union or the Labor department, which certified the grant under the provision that the T follow the old collective bargaining procedure...
...MBTA source said yesterday the T's Advisory Board had pressured the T to follow the new law. Since the law passed two years ago, the union received an arbitration award because the arbiter found direct conflict between the state law and the parties' adopted bargaining procedure...
...MBTA subsequently brought suit in state court to have the arbiter's decision overturned. One union source said yesterday, "The T knew it would get a good break in the state courts." According, the source added, the union took the case to a federal court--where it is still pending...
...MBTA's DeNatale saw the problem in a different light. "We're caught in a bind--damned if we obey the state law, damned...