The Texas Supreme Court will soon hear final arguments in a pair of long-festering labor disputes between the City of Houston and its firefighters on 2018's Proposition B, granting firefighters pay equality.
At the direction of Mayor Sylvester Turner, lawyers for the City along with the police officer’s union will argue that Proposition B, a 2018 measure approved by voters granting firefighters pay equality with police, violates the constitution.'It’s simply unacceptable,' Houston Fire Department Chief Pena says on recent attacks on first responders
"The vote of the people is a sacred thing and the fact that the City has taken a position against its own law is mind-blowing," said Marty Lancton, President of Houston's firefighter union. Lancton contends his members felt compelled to push Prop B only because the City refused to collectively bargain in good faith, a right Houston voters first granted firefighters in 2003. Turns out the companion case simultaneously before the High Court on Tuesday involves the city's bid to nullify as "unconstitutional" voter approved collective bargaining for its firefighters.EDITORS NOTE: This video is from a previous story.
"The law was designed to protect the men and women. The law was not designed to be weaponized like this City has done," said Lancton. Having closely observed five, bitter years of taxpayer-funded litigation, Council Member Michael Kubosh says the imminent prospect of firefighters prevailing in one or both cases will strike a crushing blow to the City's financial well-being."The firefighters have obviously been mistreated, and it's easy to see when you are sitting where I am.
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