Parkway toll collectors get new contract, is it the last one before cashless tolls take over?
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
New Jersey Turnpike Authority officials settled labor contracts with the remainder of its toll collectors and other Garden State Parkway employees Tuesday.
New contracts with Chapters 1 and 12 of International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers AFL-CIO Local 196 were unanimously approved by the board of commissioners. The authority operates the Parkway.
The new contract replaces contracts that expired in 2013, however workers received raises and back pay under an agreement approved by the board in September 2018, said Tom Feeney, a Turnpike Authority spokesman. The two unions represent 550 employees, he said.
Sen. Vin Gopal is prime sponsor of legislation that would set up task force to study cost savings
Credit: NJ Transit (Sandman Design via Flickr); GSP sign (Jimmy Emerson, DMV from Flickr); NJ Turnpike sign (Dr. Pa Del from Flickr)
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Nearly two decades after a merger of two New Jersey highway authorities saved millions of dollars, lawmakers want to see if the state can save more by consolidating transportation agencies.
Legislation that cleared a key Senate committee earlier this week calls for a new task force to study cost-saving opportunities from consolidating services at agencies like the Department of Transportation, New Jersey Turnpike Authority and NJ Transit, among others.
A federal appeals court upheld the conviction of former Ocean County Republican Party Chairman George R. Gilmore, 71, on charges of failing to pay over payroll taxes to the IRS and making false statements in a loan application.
Disgraced former Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore appears in this 2009 photo with the late Freeholder John Bartlett, his son Jay Bartlett, Freeholder Gerry Little, and his son Matt Little
A federal grand jury on January 10, 2019, indicted Gilmore, of Toms River, for evasion of taxes totaling more than $1 million; filing false income tax returns; failing to pay over payroll taxes to the IRS; and making false statements on a bank loan application.