We encourage all affiliates to demonstrate solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the Southern New Jersey Building Trades Council by joining s picket line to demand that the University of Pennsylvania hire union labor to complete a $50-60 million construction project of a medical center and doctors’ offices along Route 70 in Cherry Hill. The pickets began Monday and will be ongoing, from 7:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday until this dispute is resolved.

The New Jersey State AFL-CIO is proud to announce the 13^th Annual Women in Leadership Development (WILD) Conference that will take place at the Hilton East Brunswick from March 4-5, 2016. This year’s conference will offer new and enlightening insights into building leadership skills, women’s labor history, and the fight for our economic future.

The New Jersey State AFL-CIO is pleased to report that Workers United Local 1528 has ratified a new contract on behalf of up to 80 hourly employees at Nitta Casings in Bridgewater. The new three-year contract includes a wage increase for workers and keeps their benefits intact.

Learning to Understand and Implement Just Economic Reforms for NJ’s Working Families 

Whether we are talking about the labor movement or our society in general, young workers are the future. This point is well understood by the New Jersey State AFL-CIO and its affiliates, which proudly sponsored over 50 young union members to participate in an innovative power-building workshop called Commonsense Economics on Tuesday, September 29, 2015.
 
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Thanks to the vision, commitment and generosity of the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders to increase services to the county’s growing community of legal immigrants, We Are One New Jersey’s Union County Center is thriving.

Located in the easy-to-reach Jersey Garden Mall in Elizabeth, the center is filling an urgent need in this rich and diverse community for services to help legal, permanent residents become U.S. citizens. The center opens doors for new citizens. Only citizens can raise their voices, register to vote and fully engage in their community.

Union volunteers who were introduced to app-based labor walk packets for the first time on Saturday returned from the labor walk hugely enthusiastic about the new technology. The feedback from the volunteers who offered to download and use the app was overwhelmingly positive. They said it was easy and fun to use, and more efficient than the traditional paper packets because it allows more union households to be reached in a shorter period of time.

Special thanks to the Bergen County CLC for piloting this exciting new digital technology.

Momentum is building for the New Jersey State AFL-CIO labor walks, with volunteers from every sector of the labor movement fanning out from 14 locations around the state – from Paramus to Cape May – for the second statewide walk of the 2015 fall election season.  

The next two days of contract talks are critical for nurses at Shore Medical Center in Somers Point (formerly Shore Memorial Hospital). The Shore Nurses Union/NYSNA announced that without significant progress in negotiations that have dragged on for nearly a year, a 10-day strike notice is imminent. As a result, nurses could be on the picket line as early as the first week of October as they fight for quality patient care for South Jersey residents.