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Thousands protest as New Jersey Assembly prepares to vote on pension and health care bill
Photo: TrentonBattle2
Tuesday, the New Jersey Senate passed a Chris Christie-backed bill raising pension and health care contributions for public workers. On Wednesday, the Communications Workers of America filed suit on a related matter: the state's failure to make payments to the pension fund. Basically, those missing payments created the crisis of an underfunded pension, and now Christie and the legislature are fixing that crisis by making workers pay for what the state was supposed to have paid for over the past 13 years.
Today, with the NJ Assembly poised to pass the bill, more than 8,000 turned out to protest. Despite being unpopular with the Assembly's Democratic majority, it appears likely...
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