Rising costs will raise taxes, cut worker pay and NJ should help with costs, they say

"It’s time to fix New Jersey in a way that’s going to be meaningful and long-lasting," Sweeney said.

The CWA says Sweeney's plan shifts the costs of health care onto state workers and does not solve the pension funding problem.

The tentative CWA contract agreement includes both raises for workers and millions in health care savings.

Legislative leaders were briefed on the budget Monday afternoon by treasury officials.

The percentage of households with landlines and no cellphones is shrinking while wireless only households are on the rise.

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Verizon customer service workers, installers and repairmen are prepared to strike effective Wednesday morning if Verizon doesn't agree to their contract demands, which include wage ...

Tax breaks for business. Gov. Christie says the windfall comes from turning around a deep deficit in the unemployment insurance trust fund. Irked that NJ ...

Christie hits the road with his budget proposal. Or was it a pension proposal? That ignored bridge is falling down. A Christie nominee may be ...

After a judge ruled the Christie administration must make full pension payments, the governor focused on pension reform during his budget address.

Time's running out Port Authority reform. Hiking Medicare prescription drug copays for state workers? Is that legal? The Senate president and the governor. And remembering ...

New Jersey is facing a lawsuit over increases to prescription copays for state workers.

Showdown at the town hall. The governor gets an earful. Fighting an epidemic of drug deaths in the Garden State. What can stop it? And ...

Demonstrators were escorted out of Gov. Christie's town hall meeting in South River. He blamed the Communication Workers of America union for the outburst.

Fighting foreclosures through eminent domain. One New Jersey town is going where few have gone before. Plus, was it a traffic study or dirty politics ...

Newark cab drivers are forming the United Transportation Alliance of New Jersey, which will affiliate with the Communication Workers of America Local 1039.

Mike DuHaime says Gov. Chris Christie is moving New Jersey in the right direction after inheriting a dire financial situation.

If New Jersey is going to privatize state operations, it should install monitors to oversee what contracts it outsources to prevent waste of taxpayers’ dollars, ...