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2024 Endorsements

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NEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO
Endorsements

United States President and Vice President

Kamala Harris (D)
Tim Walz (D)

United States Senate

Andy Kim (D)

 

United States House of Representatives

District 1
Donald Norcross (D)*+
District 7
No Endorsement
District 2
No Endorsement
District 8
Rob Menendez (D)*
District 3
Herb Conaway (D)
District 9
Nellie Pou (D)
District 4
Chris Smith (R)*
District 10
LaMonica McIver (D)
District 5
Joshua Gottheimer (D)*
District 11
“Mikie” Sherrill (D)*
District 6
Frank Pallone (D)*
District 12
Bonnie Watson Coleman (D)*

 

*indicates incumbent
+indicates Labor Candidate

2024 Endorsed Labor Candidates

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NameUnionOffice Sought
Jen Ehrentraut*AFSCME NUHHCE 1199Hawthorne Board of Education
Rose Morales*AFSCME 2269Perth Amboy Council
Mike Heller*AFT 1904Bloomfield Board of Education
Pat PayneAFT 1940Milltown Council
Dave Gierek*AFT 3977Saddle Brook Council
Bridget Devane*AFT/HPAEBradley Beach Board of Education
Kirk GeretyBAC 5Somers Point Council
Judy Ward*CWA 1000Pleasantville City Mayor
Jenna Figueroa Kettenburg*CWA 1038Trenton Council- South Ward
Seleene WongCWA 1033Teaneck Board of Education
Tim Howard*CWA 1036Palmyra Council
Bjana SwinsonCWA 1036Mount Holly Council
Mary SemlerCWA 1037Clark Council
Karol Ruiz*CWA 1037Dover Council
Paul EspositoCWA 1085Washington Tp. Council
Frank Rollo*HFIAW 14Clayton Council
Nick LaRotonda*IAFF S-18Absecon Council
Ron Rios*IAM TCUMiddlesex County Commissioner
Dale Cross*IBEW 94Salem County Clerk
Matt Oswald*IBEW 102Riverdale Council
Joe LukacIBEW 102Manville Council
Jake Bruno*IBEW 210Franklin Township Committee
Steve Gandy*IBEW 351Stratford Council
Kyle Miller*IBEW 351Woodbury Mayor
Donald Norcross*IBEW 351CD 1 House of Representatives
Kenneth Haeser*IBEW 827Weymouth Township Committee
Lewis Brown*IBT 676Mount Holly Council
Barry Nathanson*IFPTE 194South Brunswick Board of Education
Amanda SmithIFPTE 195Lumberton Council
Josh Hertzberg*ILA 1804-1Sparta Council
Donald HeverlyIron Workers 399Gloucester County Commissioner
Will Pauls*Iron Workers 399Egg Harbor Township Committee
John Ferguson*IUEC 1Park Ridge Council
Chris Carney*IUOE 825Sussex County Commissioner
Dave TomczakIUPAT 252Washington Twp Council
Edward WhiteLIUNA 172Runnemede Council
Deborah Wright*RWDSU Int.Middletown Board of Education
Rich Kanka*UA 9Hamilton Board of Education
Richard Cheek*UA 322Hamilton Township Committee
Theron "Ike" Gandy*UBC 255Middle Township Committee
Edward Hagaman*UBC 255Mullica Township Committee
Martin GibsonUNITEHERE 54Pleasantville Board of Education
*indicates incumbent

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Atlantic/Cape May CLC
Leipzig Ave. and Almond Ave. Hamilton
Middlesex/Somerset CLC
IBEW 456
1295 Livingston Ave., North Brunswick
Bergen CLC
IBEW 164
205 Robin Road, Paramus
Monmouth/Ocean CLC
IBEW 400
3301 Highway 138, Wall
Burlington CLC
CWA 1036
26 High Street, Mount Holly
Southern CLC
Camden County
Garden State Pavilion
2240-15 Route 70 West, Cherry Hill
Gloucester County
27 S. Broad Street, Woodbury
Essex/West Hudson CLC
RWDSU 108
1576 Springfield Ave, Maplewood
Northwest CLC
IBEW 102
50 Parsippany Road, Parsippany
Hudson CLC
Seafarers
104 Broadway, Jersey City
Passaic CLC
IBEW 1158
1149 Bloomfield Ave., Clifton
Mercer CLC
IBEW 269
670 Whitehead Road, Trenton
Union CLC
SMART / SMWIA 22
700 Swenson Ave., Kenilworth

 

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Three Ways to Vote

By Mail

Voting by mail is safe and convenient. You do it from the comfort of home and you can mail back your ballot.

Your mail-in ballot must be postmarked by 8 p.m. June 4, delivered in person to your county Board of Elections by 8 p.m. June 4, or placed in a designated ballot drop box by 8 p.m. June 4.

You CANNOT deliver your mail-in ballot to a polling place.

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in Person via Early Voting

Every county will provide registered voters with the option to vote early by machine in the 2024 Primary Election.

Each of the 21 counties has designated in-person early voting locations that will be open Wednesday, May 29, through Sunday, June 2. Hours will be Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

No appointment is necessary.

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in Person on Election Day

The June 4 New Jersey Primary Election will offer in-person voting by machine from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. for all registered voters who have not voted early or submitted a Vote-by-Mail ballot.

If you have received a Vote-by-Mail ballot but have not voted, you may vote only by paper provisional ballot at your polling place.

Polling places may have changed.


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Vote-by-Mail Information:

Click here for Vote-by-Mail Applications by County

Complete the Vote-by-Mail Application, and return it to your County Clerk

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For more information about vote-by-mail, click here:

Vote-by-Mail FAQ

Lost or Damaged Your VBM Ballot?:

If you have not already returned your ballot, you may request a replacement vote-by-mail ballot from your County Clerk. If you go to your polling location on Election Day, you will have to vote using a paper provisional ballot.

Return Your Ballot by 8:00 PM on Tuesday, November 5

Place your voted ballot in a ballot drop box by 8:00pm

A voter can only return their own ballot

If you return your ballot by mail, it must be postmarked by 8:00pm on Tuesday, November 5

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Register to Vote

The deadline to register to vote in the 2024 General Election is October 15, 2024. For more information about registering to vote, click here To check your voter registration status, click here

Online

You can register online. It’s easy and safe. To register online, you will need your date of birth and a driver’s license, a state non-driver Identification Card or your Social Security number. Online voter registration is available in English, Spanish, Korean, and Gujarati.

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At Motor Vehicles

If you are eligible to vote in New Jersey, you may register to vote at a New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission office while applying for/renewing a driver’s license or non-driver identification (ID) card.

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Hand-Delivered

You can download the printable form, then fill it out and deliver it into your County Commissioner of Registration or Superintendent of Elections for your county by Oct. 12. Voter registration forms are available in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Gujarati, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Punjabi, Hindi, European Portuguese and Arabic.

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To All Affiliates,

Following President Biden’s historic decision on Sunday to graciously put his country first, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President in the 2024 race. After much careful consideration, the AFL-CIO Executive Council, which represents 60 unions and 12.5 million workers, voted yesterday to endorse Harris for President in the 2024 Election. At the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, we would like to thank the Executive Council  for their swift leadership and guidance during this time. Please review the AFL-CIO’s press release on  their endorsement of Kamala Harris below.

In Solidarity,

AFL-CIO Unanimously Endorses Kamala Harris for President

WASHINGTON—Following a vote of its Executive Council, which represents 60 unions and 12.5 million workers, yesterday the AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in the 2024 election.

“From day one, Vice President Kamala Harris has been a true partner in leading the most pro-labor administration in history,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “At every step in her distinguished career in public office, she’s proven herself a principled and tenacious fighter for working people and a visionary leader we can count on. From taking on Wall Street and corporate greed to leading efforts to expand affordable child care and support vulnerable workers, she’s shown time and again that she’s on our side. With Kamala Harris in the White House, together we’ll continue to build on the powerful legacy of the Biden-Harris administration to create good union jobs, grow the labor movement and make our economy work for all of us.”

As Vice President, Harris:

  • Played a critical role in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, investing in good-paying union jobs, bringing manufacturing back to America, lowering prescription drug costs and raising wages
  • Saved the pensions of more than 1 million union workers and retirees
  • Led the administration’s efforts to increase access to affordable child care and expand the child tax credit
  • Championed worker organizing and chaired the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, where she championed for new worker organizing and training to create pathways to good union jobs
  • Stood with striking writers

Other highlights of Harris’ record in support of workers include the following:

  • As a U.S. senator, she fought to expand labor protections and fair wages for agricultural and domestic workers and walked the picket line with International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) workers. She was a vigorous advocate for workers’ freedom to form or join a union, including strongly supporting the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to reform broken labor legislation that stacks the deck against workers.
  • As attorney general of California, she cracked down on corporate greed, took on the big banks after the 2008 financial crisis to deliver relief for struggling homeowners and protected the most vulnerable workers by tackling wage theft and other corporate crimes.

“The AFL-CIO is proud of our early and steadfast support for the Biden-Harris administration, and now we’ll ratchet up our mass mobilization of union workers to elect Vice President Harris as president,” Shuler continued. “Like Harris, the labor movement doesn’t back down—and we’ll never shy away from a tough fight when the future of workers and unions is on the line. Together, we will defeat Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and their devastating anti-worker Project 2025 agenda in November.”