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Further from true story. It wasn't the employees that "busted" state budgets, it was the recession. Public employees are just the ones being asked to PAY for someone else's malfeasance by taking away or cutting their PROMISED benefits (that they took in exchange for lower wages)
Nice job avoiding the point, haha. Bottom line is that we can't afford their pension or salary any longer, we have to start holding them accountable and letting them know. The public sector unions are a joke, nobody's ever fired, and we pay them way too much. Look at Christie's situation. He asked the teachers' unions to pay 1.5% of their salary to the benefits they receive (family plans: dental, medical, etc.) and take a 1 year pay freeze because their salaries kept going up by 5% DURING the recession, without inflation.
That's one state...take a look at my state. This past contract, we lost three days of paid time off permanently, a TWO year pay freeze, pay 4% of our gross towards our benefits and new hires have an additional 5 years to wait before they're vested(state matched the 7% contribution towards their pensions). I'm not a teacher, just regular state employee.
Lastly, I don't know how they do it in Jersey, but in PA, the individual School Districts negotiate contracts, not the governor.
IDIOT. They shouldn't HAVE TO negotiate ANYTHING.