{"id":5193,"date":"2011-06-24T01:44:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2011-06-24T01:44:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:44:44","slug":"christie-goes-after-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/christie-goes-after-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Goes After Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that Republicans hate America\u2019s workers or that they will declare open warfare on unions, wherever Republicans are in power.  In New Jersey, Chris Christie scored a major victory against workers, raiding their wallets and killing their right to bargain collectively.  The Republicans goose-stepped in lock-step, as usual.  Sadly, a few DINO\u2019s goose-stepped with them.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24NJ\"The New Jersey Assembly has passed landmark employee benefits legislation requiring public workers to pay sharply more for pension and health benefits.<\/p>\n

The divisive bill passed 46-32 Thursday with support from all Republicans who were present and a smattering of Democrats<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Senate approved the bill Monday.<\/p>\n

Republican Gov. Chris Christie is expected to quickly sign it.<\/p>\n

The measure requires 500,000 teachers, police, firefighters and other public workers to pay a portion of their health insurance based on income. It also increases pension contributions\u2026 [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This bill takes almost 10% from the paycheck of a worker making $65,000, eliminates collective bargaining rights, and even strips the COLA\u2019s  from the pensions of state workers that have already retired, violating their contracts with and obligations to them.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz explains the changes in detail, and interviews Heddy Rosenstein, a union official.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Who can blame the unions for wanting to provide no support for those few Democrats that betrayed them.  All should be defeated in primaries.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that Republicans hate America\u2019s workers or that they will declare open warfare on unions, wherever Republicans are in power.  In New Jersey, Chris Christie scored a major victory against workers, raiding their wallets and killing their right to bargain collectively.  The Republicans goose-stepped in lock-step, as usual.  Sadly, a few DINO\u2019s goose-stepped […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}