by rondelord | Jan 20, 2015 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
TRENTON — Some 800,000 people, working and retired, are beneficiaries of New Jersey’s pension system, a collection of funds going deeper into the red. It’s a system that Gov. Chris Christie, in his State of the State address last week, called “an insatiable beast.” In...
by rondelord | Jan 14, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
TRENTON — New Jersey’s police union didn’t wait for Gov. Chris Christie’s to mention pensions in his State of the State today to criticize the governor’s record on supporting the state’s ailing retirement system. Patrick Colligan, president of the New Jersey State...
by rondelord | Oct 25, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Newark would like to make cuts in city cops’ compensation packages in order to save enough money to hire an additional 65 officers in 2015, officials announced. But the proposed cuts are likely to spark a new fight with the Fraternal Order of Police, which is...
