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CWA issued the following statement in response to Governor Christie's call Thursday for a "statesmanlike" approach to dealing with the state's fiscal problems:
"The approach Gov. Christie articulated today reflects anything but statesmanship. We do have a tradition of statesmanship in New Jersey — open dialogue with stakeholders, working together to solve our problems, sharing sacrifice and not resorting to name-calling. Gov. Christie has rejected that tradition with his refusal to meet the women and men who do the public's work, his vilification of us as blameworthy special interests and his failure to ask the wealthiest New Jerseyans to do their fair share.
"Public workers have stepped up and made hard sacrifices already — almost half a billion dollars in wage and benefit concessions over the last three years. We want to work together with the Governor and the legislature, with a shared commitment to solving the problems that we are dealing with together and avoiding devastating in human services, rental assistance, transportation and offices like the Public Advocate."
The Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO) represents more than 70,000 working families in New Jersey, including more than 40,000 state workers, 15,000 county and municipal workers, and thousands of workers in the telecommunications and direct care industries.
— ANDY LAGOMARSINO, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The CWA leadership is concerned with all the wrong things. Christie wants to go much further with Pension reform while the current Bills create changes only for new employees. If CWA was smart they would back those pension reform bills before Christie can get his ideas into the Bills.
CWA should be reacting in an intelligent way and not in some silly way as they did today. Concentrate on substance not rhetoric. Concentrate on saving jobs.
Christie is out maneuvering them and they can't figure it out. He baits them into reacting and they fall for the bait.
Here is some advice for the CWA leadership, " shut up ,read the executive order, read the pension reform bills, pick the fights that will save jobs , and don't worry about getting your names in the Press."