| The contract was negotiated and agreed to in good faith for the duration of the contract period and just because Mr. Christie feels like picking and choosing what he wants to honor doesn't change that fact.
It is astonishing that he claims to be a lawyer yet has acted in every way to usurp lawful and contractually binding agreements based solely on personal opinion and his desire to weaken and destroy the unions.
In the same week Mr. Christie has also refused to acknowledge PERC's (Public Employment Relations Commission) ruling in favor of the union contract with regards to taking Black Friday as a holiday. One would almost wonder if he is making sport of attacking public workers for his own amusement. Many of these people have already made plans to be with family and likely spent hard earned money for travel and accommodations.
Not acknowledging or advising whether he plans to appeal the ruling leaves a lot of folks in a cruel limbo with regards to their families.
His defense in initially denying the Black Friday holiday was that obtaining legislative action to implement the Black Friday day off would sacrifice legislative time and resources necessary for implementing his "Tool Kit" but, by design, the MOA was agreed to by both the Union and the State under Governor Corzine to waive the requirement of legislative intervention rendering Mr. Christie's current argument invalid and a distraction. Is it any surprise that he waited until the final hours before the holiday to throw another one of his monkey wrenches into the works considering he has whined over this agreement since the day he took office, calling it an "exquisite pair of handcuffs".
Maybe it is just one more example of his perception that there is one set of rules for Mr. Christie, another set of rules for everybody else. |
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