unpaid furloughs

choice because to defeat the furloughs, which they saw as illegal, would have cut off emergency funding to keep state services going. The resolution was passed unanimously by the Senate, and

Judge Kahn quoted it in issuing the temporary restraining order. Forced to pay employees their raises and forgo the furloughs,

Paterson turned to threats of layoffs, a move that would violate yet another written agreement he made last year with the union.

(For updates on the May 26 hearing and other events, check the PEF website at www.pef.org.)

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