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Labor Gets Out the Word: Middlesex/Somerset in Pictures
Posted OnOctober 31, 2020 byUnion brothers and sisters Got Out the Word about labor-endorsed candidates and the importance of voting through a literature drop organized by the Middlesex/Somerset Central Labor Council on Saturday, Oct. 31. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”33″ display=”basic_thumbnail”]Read More
President Callahan of Operating Engineers lifts Holiday Food Drive
Posted OnOctober 29, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO is deeply grateful to James T. Callahan, General President of the International Union of Operating Engineers, for a $10,000 donation to Operation Feed Atlantic City’s Holiday Meal Drive for union brothers and sisters. President Callahan’s generous donation will go a long way toward the success of these two food distributions…Read More
NJ AFL-CIO thanks Murphy, Asaro-Angelo, Norcross for protecting workers
Posted OnOctober 28, 2020 byExecutive Order 192 steps in where OSHA would not The New Jersey State AFL-CIO thanks and praises Gov. Philip D. Murphy and state Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo for forging mandatory workplace health and safety standards for all employers as COVID-19 cases continue to increase in the state and nation. The state labor federation also thanks…Read More
Labor Gets Out the Word: Burlington CLC in pictures
Posted OnOctober 24, 2020 byUnion brothers and sisters Got Out the Word about labor-endorsed candidates and the importance of voting through a literature drop organized by the Burlington Central Labor Council on Saturday, Oct. 24. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”32″ display=”basic_thumbnail”]Read More
Union brothers and sisters care for laid-off workers
Posted OnOctober 15, 2020 byOperation Feed Atlantic City “When hard-working people are laid off,” New Jersey State AFL-CIO President Charles Wowkanech said, “the food we provide helps them feed their children while at the same time lets them know that their union family cares.” On Thursday, Oct. 15, for the 11th time since the coronavirus pandemic walloped the casinos…Read More
Labor Gets Out the Word: Atlantic/Cape May CLC in pictures
Posted OnOctober 10, 2020 byUnion brothers and sisters Got Out the Word about labor-endorsed candidates and the importance of voting through a literature drop organized by the Atlantic/Cape May Central Labor Council on Saturday, Oct. 10. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”31″ display=”basic_thumbnail”]Read More
Labor Gets Out the Word: Burlington CLC in pictures
Posted OnOctober 3, 2020 byUnion brothers and sisters Got Out the Word about labor-endorsed candidates and the importance of voting through a literature drop organized by the Burlington Central Labor Council on Saturday, Oct. 3. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”29″ display=”basic_thumbnail”]Read More
Solidarity comes through for recipients at Operation Feed Atlantic City
Posted OnOctober 1, 2020 byDifferent month, same need. The New Jersey State AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions, the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Agency and the Community FoodBank of New Jersey held a food distribution event at Bader Field in Atlantic City on Thursday, Oct. 1. For the 10th time in 20 weeks, brothers and sisters from Atlantic…Read More
NJ AFL-CIO congratulates Congressman Pascrell on chairmanship
Posted OnSeptember 23, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO congratulates Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-9th District, on his appointment as the chair of the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. Pascrell, a longtime friend of working people in New Jersey, succeeds the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. “We wish our friend Congressman Pascrell…Read More
NJ AFL-CIO praises Norcross for introducing Apprenticeship Act
Posted OnSeptember 21, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO thanks and commends our IBEW brother, U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross of the 1st Congressional District, for drafting, sponsoring and introducing the National Apprenticeship Act of 2020. “As the rapid changes in our workplaces have shown us,” said New Jersey State AFL-CIO President Charles Wowkanech, “the kind of intense, hands-on training…Read More