The First Circuit vacated a district court’s grant of summary judgment to the Worcester Regional Transit Authority on the First Amendment retaliation and Massachusetts Civil Rights Act claims of a fired bus driver/union president whose termination followed the public comments that he made to Telemundo about proposed budget cuts to the WRTA. It’s undisputed that the budget cuts that he discussed in his interview with the television network constituted a matter of public concern, the court stated, and Telemundo identified him as the union president rather than a bus driver in a portion of the interview show to the public, ...

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