The public sector unions have been conducting class warfare for decades now with full time lawyers and lobbyists
The public sector unions have been conducting class warfare for decades now with full time lawyers and lobbyists. They’ve clobbered property tax payers in NJ, which is why we have the highest taxes as a % of assessed value in the U.S. The median salary for Ridgewood FD was $118,290 in 2011, when the median for Ridgewood PD was $128,239. This compares with Ridgewood median household income at $136,231 as of the 2010 Census. However, those salary figures don’t include the multi-million dollar pensions and almost free healthcare for life we give retirees and their spouse – giveaways which have been made in exchange for little or no contribution from municipal employees until the current CBAs and NJ P.L. 2011 Chapter 78, which requires public employees (e.g. teachers, police, fire) to pay towards the cost of their health plans effective June 28, 2011. Given many high wage municipal employees retire when they reach 25 years of service, we have many years of pensions & healthcare coverage to pay for given the average life expectancy in the U.S of 78.7 years based on 2010 data. Class warfare has been waged by public sector unions, and they’re winning. So now taxpayers start questioning the cost of all of these promises we’ve made, and you call it class warfare ? Please.
