Dear Editor:
In a Nov. 16 editorial titled “No Bargain,” the Law Journal launches an unwarranted, misguided and ill-informed attack on public-sector collective negotiations.The editorialquestions whether there was “any consideration” for the no-layoff agreements negotiated by public worker unions and the state of New Jersey, asserts that state and local governments bargain collectively with organized workers “as an act of political choice rather than as a constitutional duty” and urges the Legislature to reconsider the “present system by which the wages, benefits and working conditions of public employees are fixed.”It is an editorial we would expect to read in a legal journal published in a “right to work” state such as Mississippi or Texas, not in New Jersey, where for over 40 years public employers and public employee unions have successfully negotiated collective agreements that make it possible for people to devote their careers to public service.
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