Workplace Safety and Health
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 1,400 RBHS faculty and staff represented by the AAUP-BHSNJ, an affiliate of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, have worked without a contract. They are embedded…Read More
District 1199J thanks and honors frontline heroes with drive-by Solidarity parades
Posted OnMay 15, 2020 by[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”13″ display=”pro_horizontal_filmstrip”]How 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, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, one answer is simple: With heroes parades. Flying Solidarity flags, shaking pompons and waving from behind their cars’ closed windows…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 the “burden of proof” standard so workers infected with coronavirus at their place of employment will not be denied workers compensation benefits. The bill, sponsored by…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 Service, and pension funding relief; keeps workers on payrolls to avoid mass layoffs; extends unemployment insurance; provides more direct payments to working people; extends health…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 “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
Action Alert: Please testify on legislation reforming workers compensation for victims of COVID-19
Posted OnMay 6, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO respectfully urges you to support in-committee legislation that changes the “burden-of-proof requirement” for workers infected with the coronavirus under the state’s workers compensation system. The New Jersey State Senate Labor Committee will meet remotely on Tuesday, May 12, at 3 p.m., and on the agenda is: S-2380 (Sweeney / Singer…Read More
Labor is diverse. Make sure Census 2020 results reflect our strength
Posted OnMay 5, 2020 byThe United States is becoming more diverse every day. We need to make sure the census reflects our communities and our people. Do your part—answer the census today and rest assured your data is confidential. #LaborCounts #2020Census ✅ You can complete the census from home by mail ?, online ? at https://my2020census.gov/ or by phone ? 844-330-2020….Read More
Dignity of work, solidarity honored at Mass of hope
Posted OnMay 1, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO thanks the Rev. Jon Thomas, pastor of the Parish of St. Monica, Atlantic City, the Revs. Cesar A. Rebolledo and Andrew T. Pham, St. Monica’s parochial vicars, Nick Myers, organist and cantor, and sisters and brothers of UNITE-HERE Local 54 and New York State Nurses Association for the uplifting Mass…Read More
NJ AFL-CIO congratulates Kim on appointment to coronavirus oversight panel, and pledges partnership
Posted OnApril 30, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO congratulates U.S. Rep. Andy Kim, D-3rd District, on his selection to the bipartisan House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis, and commends Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on this wise choice. Kim is to serve as one of 12 House members who will monitor in-depth how the multi-trillion-dollar programs…Read More
NJ AFL-CIO thanks Norcross as he seeks federal holiday status for Workers Memorial Day
Posted OnApril 29, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO thanks and commends our Union Brother, U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st District, as he prepares to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives to make Workers Memorial Day a federal holiday. The state labor federation respectfully asks all members of the New Jersey congressional delegation to co-sponsor the bill…Read More