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.
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
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.
An organizer of the Occupy Kean University student protest read a statement in Senator Lesniak’s office calling for the removal of President Dawood Farahi.
Students marched past Kean Hall in protest against the Board’s decision to keep President Farahi in office.
Students marched down Morris Avenue to Senator Lesniak’s office in protest against the Board’s decision to keep President Farahi in office.
