Why privatize the New Jersey Turnpike?: "the turnpike authority is not hurting for money. Yet it is now threatening to privatize our jobs if we don’t agree to 40 percent wage reductions and other concessions in benefits and work rules. We have been willing to meet and discuss ways we can save the Turnpike Authority money as we always have, but managers seem intent on destroying middle-class jobs at a time when unemployment in our state is at 9.2 percent"