Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Gov. Christie proposes freezing teacher pay
By far the largest component of our escalating property tax bill is the school tax. And a major factor in the school tax is teacher and administrator salaries, which rise on average more than 4% each and every year.
Meanwhile New Jersey is facing a cataclysmic budget deficit, now estimated to be in excess of $10 billion dollars. Goveronr Christie has called for a salary freeze at all levels of state government. And since he believes that all public employees should actually mean all public employees he's calling for that freeze to extend to K-12 education, county, and municipal governments too.
Governor Christie's vision of change for New Jersey could include freezing the salaries of teachers and other employees to make public education more affordable and effective.
A report prepared by Christie's transition team members — one of 19 released by the governor on Friday — takes on salary increases planned to start this June "in statewide contracts, as well as local district contracts."
"If, absent a source of funds to pay these increases, the new administration must take action to freeze salaries for all public employees in FY 2011, that freeze should pertain as well to pre-K-12 employees at all levels," the education report says.
Hey, we're all in this together, right? Taxpayers are getting squeezed, folks are losing their jobs (and their homes), investments are in free fall. The only growth industry in New Jersey is government, so it's high time for them to feel some pain too.
Uh, not according to the NJEA. They're like Tony Soprano coming around to collect his vig. They don't care what trouble we're having, their standard line is "F-U, pay me".
A spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association, which represents 200,000 teachers statewide, called the pay-freeze proposal "a direct violation of collective bargaining." Most districts are in the middle of current contracts, said spokesman Steve Wollmer.
Well Mr. Wollmer, it's either a pay freeze or massive layoffs. You make the
call.
Posted at 10:42 by Chris Wysocki
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