New Jersey
Missouri workers: Christie’s plan “sick and wrong”
September 28, 2011Chris Christie, a Republican, threw union contracts out the window and enacted laws forcing unions to pay more into their pension and health care benefits packages.
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CWA: “We’ve had no choice but to fight”
July 12, 2011Carolyn Wade didn't go looking for a fight, but she's in the middle of a big one: some call it a war on workers.
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N.J. Supreme Court upholds right to public education
May 26, 2011The court's decision continues a 136-year struggle by public education advocates to have a "thorough and efficient" education for all the state's children.
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“Study-in” becomes “lock-in” and a professor speaks out
May 10, 2011NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - On April 27, nine students launched a "study-in" at the office of Rutgers University president Richard L. McCormick. The students soon found themselves in a kind of "lock in" as they were...
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New Jersey rallies to support Wisconsin workers
March 2, 2011Thousands of trade unionists rallied in front of the state Capitol in Trenton last week in solidarity with the public workers of Wisconsin.
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