Posts tagged New Jersey
Commentary: Ability to Read, Write, or Do Math Is No Longer Required to Teach in New Jersey
January 7, 2025 // Teachers’ unions prevail in New Jersey. Kids will suffer.
Dockworkers to resume contract negotiations as strike threat looms
January 4, 2025 // The big sticking point holding up a deal is automation. The union wants to hold it back and stop the installation of more semi-automated cranes at the ports. (Two ports, in Norfolk, Virginia, and Bayonne, New Jersey, already use the technology.) The group representing port employers, the United States Maritime Alliance, wants to advance its use of technology.
Business groups sue over California’s new ban on captive audience meetings
January 4, 2025 // The law violates these protections by "discriminating against employers’ viewpoints on political matters, regulating the content of employers’ communications with their employees, and by chilling and prohibiting employer speech," the lawsuit said. Employers "have the right to communicate with their employees about the employers’ viewpoints on politics, unionization, and other labor issues."
Over 9.2 million workers will get a raise on January 1 from 21 states raising their minimum wages
December 18, 2024 // Twenty-one states will increase their minimum wages on January 1, raising pay for more than 9.2 million workers by a total of $5.7 billion. In addition, 48 cities and counties will raise their minimum wages above their state wage floors, mostly in California, Colorado, and Washington.
Union Boss Under Fire as Atlantic City Casino Smoking Battle Heats Up
December 6, 2024 // Ray Jensen, assistant director of United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9, called for the resignation of Donna DeCaprio, president of Local 54 Unite Here, accusing her of failing to protect casino workers from the dangers of secondhand smoke. Jensen's union represents dealers at three Atlantic City casinos and is currently involved in litigation to end smoking in gambling establishments.
Ascension St. Agnes Hospital Nurses Demand Vote to Remove NNOC/NNU Union Officials
November 19, 2024 // Requested vote would take place in unit of roughly 600 nurses; similar efforts also taking place in New York and New Jersey
Victory for Workers’ Rights: Liberty Justice Center Defends New Jersey Plumber Against Union that Illegally Withheld Money from His Paycheck
November 18, 2024 // After learning about these constitutional rights under Janus v. AFSCME, Nicolo Giangrasso—a New Jersey plumber employed by the Hamilton Township School District—resigned his union membership and requested the union stop deducting dues from his paychecks. The union refused, falsely claiming that the Supreme Court’s decision only applied to “union dues” and therefore did not apply to Mr. Giangrasso—because the union called the money it illegally took from his paychecks “assessments” instead. On August 1, the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against UA Local 9 on Mr. Giangrasso’s behalf, arguing that it does not matter whether the union labels the money withheld from an employee’s paycheck “dues” or “assessments,” because the Supreme Court held in Janus that neither dues, agency fees, “nor any other form of payment to a public-sector union” can be withheld from employees who have not agreed to the withholding—and Mr. Giangrasso had not agreed.
Trucking Company Employees Force Out Teamsters Union Bosses in Virginia, Similar Ouster Could Soon Come in New Jersey
November 4, 2024 // Nelson Chilson, a truck driver for NAPA Transportation in Richmond, VA, submitted a petition earlier this month in which the majority of his coworkers asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold a vote to remove Teamsters Local 322 union bosses. Just days earlier, a group of Philadelphia-area Penske Logistics truckers led by Shawn Shute also filed a petition demanding the same kind of NLRB election to oust Teamsters Local 500. Both Chilson and Shute are receiving free legal aid from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys.
US shippers avoid East Coast ports on risk of second strike
October 31, 2024 // "Anything we expect that we need in the back half of January, we're effectively diverting to the West Coast," said Chris Peterson, CEO of Graco high chair and Crock-Pot cooker maker Newell Brands, referring to the period after the new contract negotiating deadline. Peterson said the company switched a "couple of hundred containers" of critical materials to the opposite coast to get ahead of what he expects will be a second strike lasting, at most, two weeks.
Newark-Area Nurses Request Vote to Oust SEIU Union Officials as Federal Labor Board Seeks to Disenfranchise Workers
October 30, 2024 // Registered Nurses at the Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville Township have filed a petition demanding a vote to remove United Healthcare Workers East (1199SEIU, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union) officials from their workplace. Registered Nurse Nancy Bombaro filed the union decertification petition with Region 22 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with free legal aid from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys.