On the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the NJ Family Leave Program, legislators, labor leaders, business owners and every day citizens came together at the New Jersey Statehouse to celebrate the program’s success. The Family Leave Act provides New Jersey workers with paid time off, through a social insurance program, to bond with newborn or newly adopted children or care for a sick loved one.
On the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the NJ Family Leave Program, legislators, labor leaders, business owners and every day citizens came together at the New Jersey Statehouse to celebrate the program’s success. The Family Leave Act provides New Jersey workers with paid time off, through a social insurance program, to bond with newborn or newly adopted children or care for a sick loved one.
AFT member Karen White led a panel of individuals who have been helped by Paid Family Leave at a May 3 Statehouse celebration. Paid Family Leave has made it possible for tens of thousands of New Jerseyans to take time off from work to be with newborn or newly adopted children and family members in need of medical care.
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The College of New Jersey students, faculty and staff rallied for a fair contract for workers and funding for higher education Thursday, April 26. Click the image above to see more photos.
Click image to see photos from the April 25 Day of Action for a fair contract and higher education funding.
Thousands of union members and student turned out fighting for a fair contract and funding for higher education at state colleges and universities this week.
The state and school presidents are calling for a four-year pay freeze, elimination of sabbaticals, and would make faculty and staff use their vacation days whenever the school decides to close.
Instead of working with the union to reach a fair settlement, the state is asking for terms that would strip away decades of hard-won provisions that would dramatically impact the ability of schools to attract and retain the level of qualified workers that New Jersey has now. The givebacks the state is asking for would undermine New Jersey’s higher education system and deprive students of educational opportunities.
We are extremely proud of the great support generated at these rallies and we will continue to fight together for a fair contract and to preserve the highest level of education for our state and its students.
In Unity,
Charles Wowkanech, President
Laurel Brennan, Secretary-Treasurer
Julia Rubin, Rita McClellan, Christine Rampolla, Donna M. Chiera
Save our Schools NJ received the Friend of Education award for supporting the ideals and values of public education and working to promote the public education system.
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We had the opportunity to see Dr. West in person. He wanted to pass on the importance of participating in the United States Student Association and the Student Labor Action Project’s Week of Action. In 2012 student debt will reach 1 trillion dollars, meaning we are students with no jobs, mortgage size loans and no homes.
