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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…Read More
Solidarity Alert! Urge Congress to fund USCIS and stop AFGE furloughs
Posted OnJuly 9, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO urges all affiliates to contact their members of Congress and press for $1.2 billion in emergency funding to save AFGE brothers and sisters from furloughs…Read More
Action Alert! Please sign the petition urging no layoffs for the Coalition of Rutgers Unions’ members
Posted OnJune 16, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO urges you to sign a petition directed to Rutgers University President-designate Jonathan Holloway and the Board of Governors to stop threatening layoffs and loss of…Read More
Action Alert! Please ask your state senator to pass workers comp reform that supports families of workers who died of COVID-19
Posted OnJune 11, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO thanks and commends the New Jersey State Senate Appropriations Committee for advancing S-2476 – Cost of Living Adjustment in Workers Compensation to Dependents of Essential…Read More
Take action! Ask Assembly to pass workers comp reform for our heroes
Posted OnJune 5, 2020 byWe still need action. Our frontline heroes are getting sick on the job, but they must prove that their infection with COVID-19 coronavirus was job-related to get their well-deserved benefits….Read More
Solidarity Alert! Ask Gov. Murphy to support HPAE in contract talks
Posted OnMay 29, 2020 byAs almost 1.8 million people in America suffered from COVID-19 and more than 100,000 died, who cared for them? Healthcare Heroes. As almost 160,000 people in New Jersey suffered from…Read More
Action Alert: Rutgers health heroes deserve a contract!
Posted OnMay 26, 2020 byRutgers University Biomedical Health Science (RBHS) faculty are on the front lines of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Yet throughout the COVID-19 crisis – in fact, for nearly two years – the…Read More
Action Alert! Urge your senators to introduce and pass the HEROES Act
Posted OnMay 22, 2020 byMitch: It’s time to Act for Working America – Pass the HEROES Act! Our Senators Booker and Menendez Know How Important Passing this Bill Is. Call Them Now and Join In…Read More
NJ AFL-CIO plans solidarity event for June 3 Day of Action, invites affiliates to act for America’s Five Economic Essentials
Posted OnMay 22, 2020 byALL AFFILIATES: PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE DAY OF ACTION TOOLKIT. As America reopens after the prolonged COVID-19 crisis, it’s critical that working families be protected on the job, in…Read More