Wage freeze upheld at top level, US Supreme Court lets ruling on BTF stand

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/67341.html?imw=Y

Wage freeze upheld at top level
Supreme Court lets ruling on BTF stand
By Brian Meyer
Updated: 05/03/07 7:46 AM

The nation’s highest court has refused to review a case involving Buffalo teachers’ fight to lift a wage freeze, meaning that the three-year-old freeze will stay in place.

The executive director of Buffalo’s state-appointed control board said the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to let stand an appeals court ruling upholding the wage freeze has made this an important legal case.

“This, having played out all the way through the courts, becomes a landmark case,” Dorothy A. Johnson said Wednesday.

The point was reinforced by A. Vincent Buzzard, the Rochester attorney hired by the control board to fight the numerous legal challenges initiated by unions.

“This case is really the leading case in the country on wage freezes,” Buzzard said.

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[alittlelark]

1. The same Supreme Court that whines they don't

make enough $$$$?:puke:

[Bitwit1234]

2. They can freeze a teacher's salary BUT

they don't want a law passed that lets stockholders deceide if the CEO can get millions of dollars in benefits and bonus...golly...gee whiz nothing biased about that.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

3. Congress should pass a law freezing the Supreme Courts salaries

see how they like them apples. That is the name of the game that corporations practice - keep the wages of the working stiffs as low as possible while beefing up the exec salaries