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Jonathan Barnes
A practicing attorney for 37 years, Jonathan Barnes represented public sector and higher education employers, in-house, in the areas of labor and employee relations. He was responsible for managing these employers’ ongoing collective bargaining relationships and responsibilities with unionized employees and their union representatives and attorneys. He has advised and represented employers in union organizing campaigns; negotiated labor contracts; engaged in mid-contract bargaining and negotiated mid-contract settlements; administered and trained on the provisions of labor contracts; advised and represented employers through contractual grievance procedures; represented employers in arbitration hearings, unfair labor practice charges, and mediations in state and federal forums. Jonathan has appeared before the State Labor Relations Commission, National Labor Relations Board, State Civil Service Commission, State Department of Employment and Training, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Massachusetts state courts.
Jonathan graduated from Brown University and Boston University School of Law. After law school, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. He then worked at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare as Labor Relations counsel and Director of Labor Relations. Jonathan has extensive experience with numerous other public sector employers, serving as Director of Employee Relations at the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Director of Labor Relations at the MBTA, labor attorney in the Boston Housing Authority General Counsel’s office, and Director of Labor Relations at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. For over ten years, Jonathan represented the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Manager of Labor Relations.
Jonathan has lived in Reading for over 35 years where he has enjoyed participating in local government, including serving on the Community Planning and Development Commission for 17 years, and the Reading Historical Commission over 7 years, including serving as Chair on both. He has served as an elected Town Meeting member in Reading for the last 27 years.
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