{"id":4930,"date":"2010-04-22T16:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:46:45","slug":"could-private-sector-and-public-sector-unions-begin-squaring-off-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4930\/could-private-sector-and-public-sector-unions-begin-squaring-off-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Private-Sector and Public-Sector Unions Begin Squaring Off Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has earned high <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/GeorgeWill\/2010\/04\/22\/the_thunder_roars_in_trenton?page=full\" target=\"_blank\">praise from conservatives<\/a> by making good so far on his promise to clean up the state&#8217;s fiscal debacle using established conservative principles.\u00a0 Christie inherited a $2.2 billion deficit this year and a projected $10.7 billion deficit for next year (over 1\/3 of the total budget size), but has managed to cut $13 billion in spending in just eight weeks.\u00a0 In so doing, he has naturally <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303828304575180270979668714.html?KEYWORDS=christie+reagan+new+jersey\" target=\"_blank\">enraged the usual leftist entitlement class<\/a> and unionized public employees.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, however, Governor Christie has attracted some support from state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, who is a Democrat and leader of a local private-sector union.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 Perhaps Mr. Sweeney has recognized that the same public-sector unions whose exorbitant wages and benefits busted New Jersey&#8217;s budget also eat into the wages and livelihoods of private-sector union members who pay taxes to subsidize those public sector employees.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Reports\/2010\/01\/Majority-of-Union-Members-Now-Work-for-the-Government\" target=\"_blank\">public-sector union members exceeds<\/a> the number of private -sector union members, could we be witnessing the first signs of an intra-labor deathmatch?\u00a0 This could be interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has earned high praise from conservatives by making good so far on his promise to clean up the state&#8217;s fiscal debacle using established conservative principles.\u00a0 Christie inherited a $2.2 billion deficit this year and a projected $10.7 billion deficit for next year (over 1\/3 of the total budget size), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,1034,1060,410,1160,1159,419],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-labor","tag-chris-christie","tag-governor","tag-new-jersey","tag-private-sector-union","tag-public-sector-union","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}