Standing Up To The Public Employee Union Bullies
By Diane Gooch If politics were a schoolyard fight, the most notorious bullies would be the leaders of the influential public sector unions. Their weapon of choice: the power to collectively bargain...
View ArticleKyrillos Calls for Firing of CWA Workers in ‘Sick-Out’ That Left 174 Disabled...
Middletown- In response to an apparent ‘sick-out’ staged by Monmouth County SCAT bus drivers, Senator Joe Kyrillos (R- Monmouth/Middlesex) called for the immediate firing of the 17 CWA workers...
View ArticleKyrillos Commends Action On SCAT Employees
Middletown—Senator Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth/Middlesex) today noted the Monmouth County Freeholders swift disciplinary action against workers involved in last week’s ‘sick-out’ of SCAT bus drivers: “The...
View ArticlePension and Benefit Reform Deal Meets Resistance In Democratic Assembly Caucus
NJEA And CWA Oppose Deal Capitol Quickies has a summary of the proposed deal that reportedly has been agreed to by Governor Christie, Senate President Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver. There...
View ArticleOne Government Employee For Every 17 People
By Art Gallagher Now that Senate President Stephen Sweeney has agreed with Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver’s proposal that government employee pension and health benefit reforms be temporary and guts...
View ArticlePension crisis! Tear gas over Trenton…
Editors note: The following column by Dan Jacobson was originally published in the June 16, 2011 edition of the triCityNews. It was written before the recent agreement of pension and health care...
View ArticleTrenton Twilight Zone
Republican Governor Chris Christie proposed pension and benefit reforms that would have resulted in a $300 million budget savings in the coming fiscal year and that actuaries said would have corrected...
View ArticleWill Salary Cuts Plug The Budget Hole?
By Art Gallagher Yesterday afternoon on the LaRossa and Gallagher radio show I asked Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon how the $790 million dollar hole in Governor Christie’s proposed budget would be...
View ArticlePension and Health Care Bill Signing Broadcast Live at 2PM
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View ArticleNJ facing 20% reduction in government services
The fiscal crisis in New Jersey’s governments and schools will continue through 2017 as a result of a $13 billion revenue shortfall, ($8 billion on the state level, $5 billion on the local, county and...
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