Troopers with the New Jersey State Police received at least $23.4 million in retroactive payments under a contract awarded by an arbiter in September, the Attorney General’s Office said Thursday. The contract awarded members of all three troopers unions raises of 2.75 percent for the fiscal year 2008-2009, 2.5 percent in 2009-2010 and 2.25 percent in 2010-2011. Troopers will receive no raise in the current year.
Retroactive payments were made beginning Jan. 1, 2010, to the time the contract took effect. Troopers did not receive back payments for the first 18 months under the contract, according to the award.
Anyone who retired prior to Jan. 1, 2010 saw no retroactive pay or change to their pension benefit, said Christopher Burgos, president of the State Troopers Fraternal Association, the largest of the three State Police unions. More in Star Ledger.
Now, how about Lakewood giving its public school teachers a meaningful contract that they so deserve.
I would say that they shouldve got a ZERO RAISE across the board. Thanks for the protection but you make enough…
Sorry 1 and 2, but they deserve it! There life is on the line when they work protecting you and everyone else, is yours??????
Your everyday citizen will never understand what it’s like going to work with a gun on your hip and a bulletproof vest on, with every criminal looking for that opening to take you out if necessary. People who wear suits make twice as much. Police deserve raises across the board.
WELL SAID # 4….but the LAkewood Public School teachers also eed a gun on their hip in classrooms now!
The way it looks,Lakewood is not going to take care of their teachers,it has been two years without a contract. Think they are hoping the teachers will forget and go on working for nothing. These people put in long hard days go spend a day doing what they do for pennies and see how long you would last. The town should be able to intervene at some point and save this district, more and more teachers are leaving for better paying districts and districts that respect their teaching staff.
#6 is is right but I think the plan is to discourage teachers, good or bad, from staying in this district for more than 3 years! That way the BOE can hire inexperienced, “cheap” help as others find new school districts. Lets face it. The BOE has little interest in how the public school students fare in learning. It is all about the private schools in this town. When this school district is shut down the perks, and finances from the state, for private schools will also disappear. Then where will the money to supplement private schools come from?
thank you to the men & woman who serve in the military, LPD, State Police, and ALL police who put their lives on the line on a daily basis to keep us safe!
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this is not by accident
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The BOE has little interest in how the public school students fare in learning. It is all about the private schools in this town
I have to agree with your insight about the lakewood BOE
In my oppinion what we see is a design to fail in place and if thats not the case then we just have total incompetence . you cannot in any way shape or form have a 37% graduation rate and say you are doing your job . If thats the best you can do you need to go !!!
first, the raises are retro from 2008 to 2011, before all this union bashing came about. second, its not their fault they got all the increases. lets look at not only the unions who represent the workers, but who accepts and signs these contracts. somebody has to approve the contract, their the ones to start questioning!!!
To 789654 AISH says:
from 2.25-2.75% and you have a problem with that? thats actually pitiful for the job they are required to do . They deserve every penny and then some .
I would actually say their union needs to demand more !
They actually work for their wages and put their lives on the line doing so
To #9 Its not the teachers that don’t care its the kids, spend a day in the shoes of a teacher trying to teach without the proper materials to get the kids interested in the subjects, how about a math class without the proper tools, a science teacher without the labs need to do experments, You need tools to teach . Lakewood doesn’t want to invest in them. See what other districts have and then see what LKWD has.
To Not under a rock says:
I totally agree with this ,not blaming the teachers they have their hands tied by the BOE.
The public schools are a disgrace and we vcan thank those who are running them for the conditions that exist.