Our brothers and sisters of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Lodge I061 are back to work at Swedish furniture company IKEA's distribution center in Westampton, New Jersey, after forging a new deal with the company.

As the Machinists' strike against IKEA's distribution plant in South Jersey presses onward, New Jersey State AFL-CIO officers and staff are on site to help their sisters and brothers.

Please come out and support your sisters and brothers of IBEW Local Union 269 as they picket at the construction site of a new warehouse on Florence-Columbus Road in Mansfield, Burlington County.

A video from the picket line.

Our brothers and sisters of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Lodge I061 are on strike against Swedish furniture company IKEA after IKEA's so-called "last-best" offer was overwhelmingly rejected.

Charles “Chuddy” Whelan, the assistant business manager of UA Local 9, was appointed to an unexpired term on the Hamilton Township Council.

Labor leader Laurel Brennan, secretary-treasurer of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, has been named to the state ad hoc committee on the “toxic climate in Trenton” by its chair, state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg.

This letter appeared in The Star-Ledger Jan. 17, 2020

TRENTON – Gov. Phil Murphy on Jan. 21, 2020, signed the following bills into law:

The New Jersey State AFL-CIO congratulates and thanks Gov. Phil Murphy for signing into law the New Jersey Call Center Jobs Act, which aims to end the corporate outsourcing of call center jobs and instead keep those jobs in New Jersey.