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Profile: Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Posted OnMarch 13, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Antoinette Brown Blackwell of Somerville, who founded the New Jersey Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869 with her sister-in-law,…Read More
Coronavirus update from New Jersey State AFL-CIO
Posted OnMarch 12, 2020 byWith New Jersey in a state of emergency and a health emergency because of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and with Gov. Phil Murphy stating that all gatherings of 250 people or more should be canceled, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO is gathering important facts and useful links to help working families get through this crisis. Click…Read More
Gov. Phil Murphy recommends cancellation of all public gatherings of more than 250 individuals
Posted OnMarch 12, 2020 byFrom the Office of the Governor 03/12/2020 TRENTON – New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy today released the following statement: “Today, based on guidance we have received from the commissioner of Health, we are recommending the cancellation of all public gatherings throughout New Jersey of more than 250 individuals, including concerts, sporting events and parades. These…Read More
Profile: Nellie Morrow Parker
Posted OnMarch 12, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Nellie Morrow Parker became the first African American public school teacher in Hackensack, Bergen County. Parker was also…Read More
Video: President Richard Trumka tells CNBC how labor is fighting virus
Posted OnMarch 11, 2020 byNational AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka is pressing the Trump administration and Congress to protect workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Read More
Profile: Mary Yamashita Nagao
Posted OnMarch 11, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Mary Yamashita Nagao, a Japanese-American who was sent to an internment camp during World War II and, after…Read More
17th Annual WILD Conference canceled
Posted OnMarch 10, 2020 byWith New Jersey in a state of emergency declared by Gov. Phil Murphy, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO is canceling the Women In Leadership Development Conference originally scheduled for this weekend, Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14, 2020. The health and well-being of all WILD sisters and brothers is the labor federation’s top priority….Read More
Governor declares state of emergency amid COVID-19
Posted OnMarch 10, 2020 byNews from the Office of Gov. Phil Murphy, Monday, Feb. 9, 2020 Public health emergency to strengthen state preparedness to contain the spread of novel coronavirus TRENTON – As part of the state’s coordinated response to address the novel coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Phil Murphy today declared a state of emergency and a public health emergency,…Read More
Profile: Frances Perkins
Posted OnMarch 10, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Frances Perkins, U.S. secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the first woman to serve in…Read More
Profile: Margaret Laird
Posted OnMarch 9, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Margaret Laird of Essex County, who was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey…Read More