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Urge Your Legislators to Support the “Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act”
Posted OnMay 6, 2024 byCLICK HERE TO SEND A LETTER TO YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS As healthcare facility staffing becomes the #1 reason why workers are going on strike at hospitals throughout the country, it is plain to see that worker dissatisfaction in the industry, combined with plummeting nurse retention, has resulted in a crisis situation for patients and healthcare…Read More
TAKE ACTION! Urge Your Lawmakers to Support the Responsible Collective Negotiations Act
Posted OnJune 16, 2021 byPlease ask your state Senator and Assembly members to support the “Responsible Collective Negotiations Act” – also known as the “Janus 2” bill. This legislation would build on the “The Workplace Democracy Enhancement Act,” which was enacted in 2018 to address several outstanding issues related to the Supreme Court case “Janus v. AFSCME,” which overturned…Read More
Take Action! We need the PRO Act NOW!
Posted OnApril 8, 2021 byToday is the AFL-CIO National Day of Action for the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Our U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker have always supported working people, and they continue to make their support clear by co-sponsoring the PRO Act. Let’s show them how much we appreciate their pro-union stances, and…Read More
Solidarity Alert! Support Teamsters GOTV!
Posted OnMarch 22, 2021 byOur brothers and sisters are Getting Out the Union Vote! Drivers at Shred-it in Lawrenceville have filed for an election to be represented by Teamsters Local 469. Management at Shred-it is using all the usual tricks to pressure the workers to vote no on the Union. But these drivers and helpers are ready to VOTE YES…Read More
Today at the State House: Legislative Update
Posted OnFebruary 24, 2021 by— Workers Comp Benefit Increase for Dependents of Essential Workers Who Died of COVID Released from Committee and Posted for Assembly Floor Vote — Higher Education Anti-Subcontracting Bill Released from Assembly Labor Committee A-3998 (Murphy / Giblin / Verrelli) was released from the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 7-2. Voting in favor were Assembly…Read More
NJ AFL-CIO recalls COVID victims
Posted OnFebruary 22, 2021 byState Labor federation thanks NJ elected officials for leadership Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, New Jersey’s essential workers have labored on the front lines of health care, police and fire, transportation and shipping, construction, retail and service work – every sector of labor. They cared for the dying who were separated from their loved ones, kept…Read More
Take Action: Ask NJ delegation in Congress to pass the PRO Act
Posted OnFebruary 4, 2021 byPlease write our New Jersey elected officials in our Congressional delegation and ask them to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act now. All New Jersey members of the House of Representatives helped pass the PRO Act in the House last year. And even though New Jersey’s two U.S. senators favored the PRO Act,…Read More
Take Action Immediately! Ask Assembly to pass bills to support frontline workers fighting COVID
Posted OnDecember 16, 2020 byCOVID has had a major negative health impact on essential workers and their families. Two bills in the Assembly — A-3998 and A-4129 — would help us protect them as the virus continues to surge in our state. A-3998 (Murphy / Giblin / Verrelli) would provide a COLA increase annually from workers compensation to the…Read More
Action Alert: New Jersey needs the HEROES Act
Posted OnAugust 4, 2020 byPlease thank your Representatives and Senators … and perhaps ask your Senators to nudge their colleagues to get on board.Read More
Action Alert! Ask Assembly to pass COVID-19 workers comp reforms
Posted OnJuly 28, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO urges all affiliates and their members to contact their New Jersey State Assembly members and ask them to pass A-3999. The pro-labor A-3999 seeks to reform the workers compensation system to aid essential workers who were infected with coronavirus on the job. A-3999 has been scheduled for a vote in…Read More