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Profile: Mikie Sherrill
Posted OnMarch 6, 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: Mikie Sherrill. Representative Sherrill, a Naval Academy graduate and former Navy helicopter pilot, proudly serves New Jersey’s 11th…Read More
Solidarity Alert: Rally to support AFSCME Council 63 at SERV!
Posted OnMarch 5, 2020 byOur sisters and brothers of AFSCME New Jersey Council 63 need our support. Workers at SERV – the Social Educational Residential Vocational Behavioral Health System – voted to have Council 63 represent 55 behavioral health workers, but the employer has hired a nationally known union-busting law firm to try to delay the certification process at…Read More
Profile: Virginia Apgar
Posted OnMarch 5, 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: Dr. Virginia Apgar. The New Jersey native is to thank for the post-birth assessment that’s saved countless newborn…Read More
Norcross joins Speaker Pelosi in calling for investments in school infrastructure
Posted OnMarch 4, 2020 byFrom the office of Rep. Donald Norcross, March 4, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st District, joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chairman Bobby Scott, D-Virginia, Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia to address the need to pass the Rebuild America’s…Read More
Kim advocates for local workers, construction jobs in New Jersey
Posted OnMarch 4, 2020 byFrom the office of Rep. Andy Kim, D-3rd District, March 4, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Andy Kim, D-3rd District, received a commitment from Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett to find ways to increase information for local businesses and workers so they can take advantage of economic opportunities at and around Joint…Read More
Governor’s surgery successful; NJ AFL-CIO wishes him speedy recovery
Posted OnMarch 4, 2020 byFrom the Office of the New Jersey Governor, March 4, 2020 Acting Gov. Sheila Y. Oliver announced: “Earlier today, Governor Murphy underwent a successful surgery to remove a tumor on his kidney. He is currently resting at a hospital in New York City.” The New Jersey State AFL-CIO sends Gov. Phil Murphy get-well wishes and…Read More
Profile: Dolores Huerta
Posted OnMarch 4, 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: Dolores Huerta. After meeting César Chávez, the two founded the National Farm Workers Association, the predecessor to the…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
Profile: Leonora Barry
Posted OnMarch 3, 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: Leonora Barry. As the first woman paid to be a labor investigator, she rose to high levels in…Read More
State AFL-CIO’s Brennan praises AFSCME’s WOW Committee
Posted OnMarch 2, 2020 by[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”4″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″]“Unions need women, and women need unions,” New Jersey State AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Laurel Brennan said to union sisters at the inaugural AFSCME New Jersey Council 63 WOW – Women Organizing Women – Committee Brunch on Saturday. Feb. 29, 2020. “The greatest equalizer for women is a union contract,” Brennan continued. Brennan…Read More