New Jersey is one of five of the states where government union membership rates exceed 50 percent.
How powerful are public employee unions in your state?
By Jason Hart / February 26, 2015 | Watchdog.org
More than half of the public employees in 13 states are union members, and government union membership rates exceed 25 percent in 27 states.
Labor unions work against employers — local, state and federal taxpayers, in the case of public employees. While slamming labor reforms as “anti-worker,” America’s four largest unions enrich themselves and their members at taxpayer expense.
The National Education Association, Service Employees International Union, American Federation of Teachers and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees have a combined total of more than 7.5 million members.
Over 3.3 million unionized public employees work in California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, five of the states where government union membership rates exceed 50 percent.
So a state court orders Chris Christie to make the state pension fund payments he agreed to. Christie says a liberal activist judge is overriding the “will of the people.” But the real problem, as repeatedly documented by David Sirota at the International Business Times, is that Chris Christie tripled the NJ investment management fees. (Including paying the company that employs his wife.)
Did he do it to build up Wall Street support for his presidential run? (Gee, what do you think?) If he hadn’t, he could easily make the payment:
investment management fees are just one small part of the big mess
he’s done bro.
Union thugs are destroying the state, $700 million per month at a time…
Investment managers should only be paid for performance.
Not 2% plus 20%