Workplace Safety and Health
Opinion by President Wowkanech: Honoring the work of essential employees must go beyond symbolic gestures
Posted OnJuly 6, 2020 byThis Opinion article appeared July 6, 2020, online and in print in The Bergen Record and at least five other USA TODAY Network publications in New Jersey. By Charles Wowkanech…Read More
Global pandemic? IBEW Young Workers take time to help others
Posted OnJune 30, 2020 byEven though many members of NxtUp94, the young workers’ committee of IBEW Local 94, have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, they still stood with their community by…Read More
Travelers from out of state may be subject to quarantine
Posted OnJune 24, 2020 byThe governors of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut have issued a joint incoming travel advisory: All individuals traveling from states with significant community spread of COVID-19 must quarantine for…Read More
Spirits lifted by Heroes Celebration at Paramus Veterans Home
Posted OnJune 3, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO’s Union Veterans Council and the Bergen Central Labor Council held a Heroes Celebration at the New Jersey Veterans Home at Paramus on Wednesday, June 3,…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
District 1199J thanks and honors frontline heroes with drive-by Solidarity parades
Posted OnMay 15, 2020 byHow do you thank frontline health care workers for their lifesaving and life-affirming work? For the sisters and brothers of District 1199J, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees,…Read More
New Jersey State AFL-CIO applauds State Senate for passing coronavirus workers comp reform
Posted OnMay 15, 2020 byUrges Assembly to support infected essential workers and pass the bill The New Jersey State AFL-CIO thanks the New Jersey State Senate for passing S-2380, which would make reforms to…Read More
Tell Congress: Support H.R. 6800, the HEROES Act
Posted OnMay 15, 2020 byH.R. 6800, the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, includes an emergency workplace infectious disease standard; gives aid for state and local governments, public schools, the U.S. Postal…Read More
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…Read More