New Jersey: Union Disputes Lawsuit Claims
According to Forbes.com:
The Communications Workers of America said in legal papers that Gov. Jon S. Corzine and a labor leader he once dated broke the law if they engaged in collective bargaining via e-mail exchanges, as she contends. In a brief filed Monday in a lawsuit seeking the release of e-mails between the governor and union leader Carla Katz, the CWA ripped the legal arguments put forth by Katz, who wants the e-mails kept private. "Where Katz engaged in unauthorized communications with the governor during collective bargaining, in direct violation of a CWA Bargaining Committee resolution, the exemption may not apply," CWA lawyers wrote in their friend of the court filing. "In addition, depending on the actual content of the e-mail communications in question - communications to which neither CWA or Local 1034 is privy - the exchanged of e-mails between Katz and Gov. Corzine may have violated the Employee Employer Relations Act."...click to continue.
