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New Jersey: Unions Now Want to be Paid For Not Being Sick

The unions in New Jersey never seem to quit and they just don't get it. Public workers and the legislature in the Garden State want Governor Chris Christie to sign a bill that would not only bump sick leave liabilities from $800 million to $3.25 billion (which the state doesn't have), but would pay government workers cash for unused sick days, or in other words, for not getting sick.