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