Below is today’s Star Ledger Editorial. In it, they call for draconian changes to the way public employee unions conduct their business in New Jersey. The article cites a handful of abuses by police and teachers, and then recommends freezing all public employee salaries regardless of contracts, rewriting collective bargaining laws, taking negotiating responsibilities away from municipalities, placing mandatory caps on salary increases and threatening massive layoffs to achieve these goals.

If I didn’t know better, I would think that this editorial was written in Mississippi, not New Jersey. But sadly, it was written here. We agree that changes need to be made to stop abuses. We support those changes. But throwing the baby out with the bathwater is outrageous.

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