By Max Pizarro
Politicker NJ
TRENTON — Bearing coffins and wearing Chris Christie masks, livid corrections officers stormed the plaza outside the Statehouse Annex this morning demanding that the legislature revisit a workman’s compensation bill that would give their ranks full disability benefits.
Christie last week vetoed S-929/A-1908, a bill sponsored by Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3), who wants to succeed the sitting Republican in the governor’s mansion.
Today, corrections officers led by labor leader Lance Lopez, president of PBA Local 105, made the case that Democrats need to revisit the legislation, override the governor’s absolute veto, and secure 100% workers’ compensation for corrections officers hurt in the line of duty.
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