N.J. Assembly Republicans accuse NJEA of ‘pandering’ to members in pension talk pullout
TRENTON — Republican members of the state Assembly Budget Committee on Wednesday criticized New Jersey’s largest public worker union of taking the easy road by shutting down pension talks and demanding full funding without offering any alternatives. The assemblymen, in a brief news conference following a budget hearing on Department of Education funding, leveled accusations of… Read the rest of this entry »
Attention County Workers: The Freeholder Meeting is not in Fair Haven!
CWA Local 1075 is calling on Monmouth County workers to gather in Fair Haven on Tuesday evening to protest for a fair contract.
Contract negotiations have been going on for two years, according to the CWA 1075 website, and County workers have had enough.
Here’s the problem: The Freeholders are meeting at the Hall of Records in Freehold.
I was going to write a snarky post making fun of the union for sending their members to the wrong location, but after verifying that the meeting is in Freehold with Freeholder Director Lillian Burry and Freeholder Tom Arnone, they both asked me to get the word out that the Freeholders want to hear from the membership. They have moved the meeting to Judge Cleary’s Court Room in order to accommodate the larger than usual crowd that is expected.
The meeting was moved back to Freehold weeks ago. Where the communication breakdown happened is unknown.
So share this post and spread the word….the Freeholder Meeting is on Tuesday September 23, not on its usual Thursday night because of Rosh Hashanah, and the meeting has been moved to larger quarters, Judge Cleary’s Court Room , 1 East Main St, in Freehold.
Posted: September 22nd, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Government Employees Unions, Monmouth County, Monmouth County Board of Freeholders | Tags: CWA 1075, Employment Contracts, Freeholder Director Lillian Burry, Freeholder Tom Arnone, Government workers, Monmouth County, Monmouth County Hall of Records, New Jersey | 1 Comment »
Government for the “servants” by the “servants”
Happy Labor Day.
Today we can celebrate that “government of the people, for the people and by the people” has perished from this State.
It has been replaced by government of, for and by the government workers’ unions, bureaucrats protected by civil “service” laws and contracts, and the politicians, protected by gerrymandering and incumbency, who have abdicated the most fundamental functions of government to said unions and bureaucrats. The so called public “servants.”
There have been eight people killed violently in Newark, either by shooting or stabbing, in the last seven days.
If this was a partisan political post, I’d be slamming Newark Mayor Cory Booker for the rise in crime in his city over the last over the last three years.
But that would be disingenuous. Violent crime in Newark declined from 2006, when Booker was elected mayor through November of 2010 when he laid off the 167 city police officers that had been hired since he became mayor.
Posted: September 2nd, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Christie, Cory Booker, Crime, Crime and Punishment, Government Employees Unions, Government Waste, Law Enforcement, Legislature, New Jersey, Newark, NJ State Legislature | Tags: Cory Booker, Government employees unions, Governor Chris Christie, Gun Violence, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Newark, NJ Legislature, unions, violence, violent crime | 10 Comments »