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Benefits bill advances in NJ over labor objections

New Jersey legislation requiring public workers to shoulder a larger portion of their pension and health benefits costs and restricting collective bargaining over health care picked up steam this week.

By ANGELA DELLI SANTI, Associated Press | Updated on June 17, 2011
An unidentified man watches a rally of thousands who are there to protest a Senate Budget Committee hearing on employee benefits at the State House Annex in Trenton, N.J.,Thursday, June 16. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey legislation requiring a half-million public workers to shoulder a larger portion of their pension and health benefits costs and restricting collective bargaining over health care picked up steam this week, despite howls of protest from organized labor and backroom infighting that splintered the state’s Democratic Party.

A Senate budget panel advanced the employee benefits bill Thursday as 3,500 union workers protested outside the Statehouse, setting up a potential showdown next week on the Senate floor.

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