New York Court of Appeals June 12, 2007 (Mayor of New York v. Council of New York)

Read, J. (dissenting).

The Taylor Law preempts Local Law Nos. 18 and 19 (2001) of the City of New York. The provisions of the Collective Bargaining Law (CBL) that the City Council amended by these local laws delineate the scope of collective bargaining, and were initially hammered out by the Mayor and the municipal unions at the bargaining table.