In re the Arbitration between Hudson Valley District Counsil of Carpenters & State

Yesawich, Jr., J. (dissenting).

I respectfully dissent and vote to affirm.

"Public employer”, as defined by Civil Service Law § 201 (6) (a), encompasses a number of entities including "(i) the state of New York” and "(vi) any other * * * agency or instrumentality or unit of government which exercises governmental powers under the laws of the state”. To construe public employer to mean the State of New York as a single unit which includes the subunits of the State reads clause (vi) out of the statute and renders this language meaningless, in contravention of established principles of statutory…