US - New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney proposed ending automatic pension raises for employees and attempting to make current workers pay more to preserve a 9% benefits increase enacted in 2001.
Sweeney, from West Deptford, said he and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, a fellow Democrat, will also push for labour management boards akin to those steering private-sector unions and suggested li...
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