Legal Opinion · Dissent
Kent v. Lefkowitz
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 10, 2016Published
1DissentFahey, J.
I respectfully dissent and would affirm the Appellate Division order. The side letter agreement is the product of a negotiation between the New York State Public Employees Federation, AFL-CIO (PEF) and respondent New York State Governor’s Office of Employee Relations. Both of those sophisticated entities are well schooled in the art of negotiation. To say that PEF implicitly agreed to a 25% wage reduction strains credulity.
The majority essentially concludes that because the side letter incorporates more than 50 articles from the 1995-1999 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between PEF and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Board of Education of City School District v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
- Patrolmen's Benevolent Ass'n of City of New York, Inc. v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 2006
- Town of Islip v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 2014
- New York City Transit Authority v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 2012
- Poughkeepsie Professional Firefighters' Ass'n v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 2006
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