after today’s court ruling justifying GAS's illegal furloughs because the legislature tacitly approved them, labor contracts don’t mean a thing. The MOUs are worthless. All the negotiation and bargaining are meaningless when they can turn around and take holidays aways, lower your pay, reduce your hours and reform your pension. And State Workers have to abide by the MOUs and cannot strike thus taking away any bargaining leverage...
this ruling by the high court is baffling to me... saying that GAS does not have the authority to impose furloughs but they were tacitly approved by the legislature, even though the legislature did not change the collective bargaining agreements and did not explicitly approve the furloughs, just because they approved the budget including the furlough savings? Can anyone tell me a case where a court has held that an illegal act could be made legal retroactively by implication? I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the ruling. Afterall, GAS did just increase the judges' budget by 100 million and he appointed the Republican panel himself...
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