New Jersey’s Largest Teachers Union Takes Fight Over Pensions To Airwaves

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Philly.com

By David Madden

TRENTON, N.J. (CBS) – With New Jersey’s pension funding crisis in court and the state budget now in full debate mode, the New Jersey Education Association is turning up the heat with a new media blitz starting Thursday from Philadelphia to New York. It’s costing the union $750,000 a week.

Governor Chris Christie’s people call it “misleading attacks and fear mongering” that doesn’t get around the math that New Jersey cannot afford to fully fund the pension right now. The NJEA’s ad offers its own mathematical equation:

“Over 20 years, teachers have paid more than $10-billion into their pensions. But New Jersey politicians have paid just three,” the ad states.

The idea is to put pressure on Christie and legislative democrats to honor the deal they made with state unions.

FULL story at link.




Read more: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/05/21/new-jerseys-largest-teachers-union-takes-fight-over-pensions-to-air-waves/

[Human101948]

1. A good ad but perhaps goes a bit too easy on Christie...

who should be tarred and feathered and run out of NJ on a rail as our Founding Fathers would have done.

[tech3149]

2. Unfortunately, it's not just Christie

As a former NJ resident I can remember that the contribution to the pension fund has been short changed since at least Whitman was governor. The same is true in many other states.