Posted on May 17, 2019 May 17, 2019

NJ BUILDING TRADES PRESIDENT BLASTS CWA LEADER FOR MISREPRESENTING PATH TO PROGRESS EFFORT

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Trenton NJ, Senate President Sweeney introduced a sweeping bill package aimed at slashing the high cost of government in New Jersey originating from the recent Path to Progress report. In response to the continued attacks by New Jersey public work leaders, particularly the leader of CWA, Hetty Rosenstein, the President of the New Jersey Building and Construction Trades Council, William Mullen, released the following statement.

Posted on May 3, 2019 June 27, 2021

Sweeney Blasts CWA Leader on Mischaracterization of Fiscal Reforms

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Trenton NJ, Senate President Steve Sweeney today challenged the mischaracterizations of his proposed fiscal reforms by Hetty Rosenstein, the New Jersey area director for the Communications Workers of America, saying that her descriptions of the substance and impact of the proposals in the “Path to Progress” report are “flat out wrong.”

“Ms. Rosenstein is doing a disservice to the taxpayers and to public employees with her false characterizations of the reforms needed to restore integrity to public finances and prevent a future fiscal meltdown,” said Senator Sweeney. “Our hybrid pension plan will improve the fiscal stability of the pension system for current and retired public employees and save billions of dollars for taxpayers and the state budget.