APRIL 21, 2015, 1:45 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015, 10:08 PM
BY MELISSA HAYES
STATE HOUSE BUREAU |
THE RECORD
The New Jersey Education Association will no longer work with Governor Christie on revamping pension and health benefits for public employees, ending what the governor had called an “unprecedented accord” at the heart of his plan to reform the system.
Instead, the NJEA said on Tuesday that it would focus on a lawsuit filed by more than a dozen unions that challenges Christie’s decision to significantly cut the state’s pension contributions. A Superior Court judge has sided with the unions, ruling Christie must make the larger payments, and the state Supreme Court will hear the governor’s appeal next month.
“If we had it to do over again, we would never have signed the memo describing concepts we discussed with the commission,” NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer said in his statement, referring to the panel the governor appointed to make recommendation shoring up the pension system. “It was misrepresented by the governor, and that distracted everyone from the real priority: requiring the state to fund the pensions for which our members have paid their share on each and every payday throughout their careers.”
Christie, who had trumpeted the deal with his biggest political foe, turned to social media to respond to the union and to attack Democrats who joined the unions’ lawsuit and called for him to make larger pension payments.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/njea-breaks-with-christie-on-pension-and-benefits-changes-1.1313853
Which one is lying?
Oink oink public pension pigs are lying
time to pay up . it’s not chris ‘s fault it’s all the other bull shiters be for him. he is just stuck with the bill.
so true jery.
They have the money, a deal is a deal, this will be the bill paid though.