New Jersey Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.



Some of the workers, including employees of airline subcontractors such as PrimeFlight Aviation Services, have said that they make just $10.20 an hour, not nearly enough to raise a family.

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See related article: United Airlines Announces Record Profit, Workers Protest Low Wages Currently, workers at the Port Authority's New Jersey facilities make about $21,000 per year, even though their peers at New York's airports and transport hubs earn $15 per hour due to the state's higher minimum wage, according to a joint news release from Sweeney and New Jersey Senator M. Teresa Ruiz, the primary sponsors of the STAFER Act.

"The men and women who work at Newark Airport, NewarkThis revelation — that he engaged in a hobby he would call “a bit egghead-ish” — does not square easily with Ryan’s public image as the brash and swaggering coach of the Jets. The same guy who encouraged cheap shots while playing football with his two brothers and who recently ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, would also jockey to draft Manny Mota, a Strat-O-Matic superstar. By day, Ryan would plot aggressive schemes as one of the N.F.L.’s more creative defensive coaches. By night, in his slivers of spare time, he would scour the Internet for player-card sets that had eluded his collection.

It was bound to happen, what with being a head coach and all, but his obsession has waned. Neither of his sons was that interested.