Posted on 04/30/2011 6:43:13 AM PDT by Daffynition
Take a good look at the person handing out dollars and coins in that toll booth on the New Jersey Turnpike or Garden State Parkway.
You are seeing an endangered species.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which oversees the Turnpike and Parkway, ratified an agreement today to extend the contract of toll collectors for two more years. Unions agreed to a series of concessions, including salary cuts of about 25 percent — from around $65,000 a year to $49,500 annually — by the end of the contract.
But the intention is to eliminate all toll collecting jobs when the contract expires June 30, 2013.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
I said it then and I say it now... Why? In the private sector when a business wants to can you here in Texas (right to work state) they do it ... on the street cold turkey.
The increase is also being used to make up for the losses of the pension funds that invested foolishly in real estate and the equities market ramped up using the borrow-and-spend policy that inevitably results in bust. Those investments have not come back, despite the fake DJIA recovery. So they are looking to fill those coffers by charging the people more. The people. You know “working families” AKA “the little guy.” Yes, those very same the unions claim to represent.
I suspect they’ll shuffle it off to a DOE or DOT regulation some day and implement something like it. They are openly talking about tagging mileage for a tax rather than the gas tax already.
Have you ever driven on the highways of North Carolina?
Hah! I hope somebody has a moonroof!
Incidently, there seems to be fewer Virginia state troopers lining I-77 (and I-81, I assume) now that the speed limit has for the most part been raised to match that of their bordering states. Woohoo!
Next, elevator operators.
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