The Commonwealth Foundation, a conservative think tank, reportedly compensated counterprotesters in Philadelphia on Thursday in a failed effort to give the appearance of popular support for the recent move by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission (SRC) to abrogate the contracts of Philadelphia teachers.
According to some partners, he proclaimed, his voice rising, "We'll tear up the contracts!" However unrealistic the notion of suddenly abrogating the contracts, the monologue left the impression that Kessler, and not Davis, was leading the firm.
He has the power to abrogate the existing contracts for the building's management.
He also proposes to work with the county's unions to make voluntary savings and thus avert a state takeover of the county's finances, which could abrogate the union contracts.
But isn't it bad enough that it has somehow managed to cast Rand Paul — who would abrogate the American social contract, consolidate the country's transformation into a merciless plutocracy, and destroy the global power of the United States not just for ill but, in both senses, for good — as the conscience of a nation and the hero of its enlightened youth?
Under the law, Bobb could choose to abrogate the Detroit teachers' contract entirely.
Bobb's legal right to abrogate the district's contract with the union may be the nation's most extreme example of an administrator's power over teachers.
Microsoft then sued both Google and Lee, claiming that the engineer's "job description" at his new employer would abrogate the terms of a noncompete agreement he signed as part of his Microsoft employment contract.
Congress may not abrogate the states' sovereign immunity pursuant to its Article I power over commerce.
Then they can abrogate the treaty and proceed to build a nuclear arsenal.
