Liberal Heartache: Buffalo teacher's union will cut cosmetic surgery from next contract

This cut will potentially save Buffalo taxpayers $9 million a year. Unless teachers demand something else outrageous.

MyFoxNY reported:

The state-appointed authority overseeing Buffalo public school finances says taxpayer-covered cosmetic surgery rung up by the city's teachers totaled nearly $9 million in 2009.

The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority reports that last year's costs for such elective procedures as chemical peels and other skin treatments are up $8 million over the 2004 tab for cosmetic surgery provided under the teachers' union contract.

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The president of the teachers' union says the union has agreed to give up the benefit in the next contract.