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Action Alert! Please urge state Senate to vote Yes on presumption of infection on job
Posted OnMay 12, 2020 byLEGISLATIVE ADVISORY, MAY 12, 2020 Workers compensation reform legislation for coronavirus-infected workers released from the Senate Labor Committee along party lines Please TAKE ACTION and urge your State Senator to vote “YES” on this bill on Thursday Today, S-2380, sponsored by Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Sens. Robert Singer, R-30th District, and Linda Greenstein, D-14th District,…Read More
Register NOW to testify remotely on furlough “job-sharing” legislation
Posted OnMay 5, 2020 byLEGISLATIVE ADVISORY Coronavirus-Related Workers Compensation Bills Introduced S-2350 (Sweeney / Pou) has been posted for consideration by the Senate Appropriations Committee for this Thursday, May 7 2020 at 1:00 p.m. The legislation seeks to supplement the existing “job share” law to provide benefits for employees and savings for employers from the federal financing of UI…Read More
SOLIDARITY ALERT! ATLANTIC CITY CASINO WORKERS NEED OUR HELP!
Posted OnApril 24, 2020 byAs the unprecedented economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic enters its second month, more than 10,000 of our union sisters and brothers in the casino industry in Atlantic City are struggling, are in financial limbo and are unable to put food on the table for themselves and their families. UNITE-HERE Local 54 is coordinating…Read More
Take Action! NJHA member health care facilities must immediately stop retaliating against workers amid the lack of personal protective equipment
Posted OnApril 15, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO stands for our front-line heroes fighting the coronavirus pandemic every day. We are outraged by ongoing retaliation against health care workers for using personal protective equipment they acquired themselves or for speaking up on behalf of patients and co-workers amid this unfortunate PPE shortage, and we condemn these unjust actions. …Read More
Action Alert! Urge state Legislature to fix workers comp to aid COVID frontline workers
Posted OnApril 8, 2020 byTAKE ACTION! Urge Legislators to Enact Workers Compensation Reform So Essential Employees Can Streamline Access to Benefits Due to a Workplace Coronavirus Infection Frontline essential workers continue to perform their jobs in extremely dangerous environments and are being infected with coronavirus as a result. Therefore, I urge you to take immediate steps to reform the…Read More
Donate PPE to help your brothers and sisters on the front lines
Posted OnApril 1, 2020 byThe State Troopers Fraternal Association and the Health Professionals and Allied Employees – more than 15,000 union brothers and sisters serving as the “tip of the spear” in the war on COVID-19, are asking members of the public, small business owners and operators, and large corporations alike to donate personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to…Read More
Take Action! Ask your House representative to vote for the coronavirus stimulus
Posted OnMarch 26, 2020 byThe U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Friday, March 27, on the $2.2 trillion package of labor-friendly bills designed to help working families and restart the economy. The Senate passed the package 96-0. The New Jersey State AFL-CIO supports this legislation, which improves unemployment insurance benefits and sends money directly to the families…Read More
Please act now! Ask your senator to vote against the ban on shopping bags
Posted OnMarch 3, 2020 byIt’s make-or-break for the New Jersey Senate to save paper bag manufacturing jobs in the state. S-864 is coming up for a vote in the full Senate, Thursday, March 5, and it’s critical that it is defeated. Why? This bill, if enacted, will ban paper shopping bags, plastic bags, plastic-foam containers and single-use straws, even…Read More