Governor Christie pushed teachers — a union key to his pension reform plan — to agree to benefits changes Tuesday as his administration argued in a court filing that a judge “fabricated a constitutional right to pension funding.”
Christie is working to overturn a Superior Court ruling that requires the state to adhere to a law he signed four years ago requiring increasing payments to the pension fund.
At the same time, Christie is pushing the public to back his plan to overhaul retirement benefits for all public employees, a plan that requires changes not only to pensions but to medical benefits. Changes in health care benefits will mean savings that can be applied to pensions, Christie has argued. (Hayes/The Record)