CWA Takes Message to Legislature
Submitted by seth on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 7:07pm
The action was in North Jersey last Thursday, as CWA members had meetings with Senators Theresa Ruiz (D-Newark) and Robert Gordon (D-Fair Lawn). State and local government workers met with the Senators to discuss concerns about an anti-worker package of legislation currently being considered in Trenton, called the “Toolkit.”
Ronda Wilson, President of CWA Local 1089, who met with Senator Gordon, has been having one-on-one conversations with coworkers about the Toolkit. “All these different things, the layoffs, the bumping rights, the furloughs, can hurt them,” she said. “And that’s scary.” Check out a video of Wilson and Bill Osserin, the Local's Legislative and Political Coordinator, below:
For information on the meeting with Senator Ruiz, as well as a video reaction to that meeting, click here.
And on Monday, two dozen CWA activists were at the Statehouse as the State Senate convened. CWAers cornered the Senators anywhere they could, in hallways, between meetings, in the cafeteria. The consensus was that Senators need to hear more from CWA constituents in their districts. “We know they want to reform Civil Service somehow, but we don’t know what they have in mind,” said Jennifer Geisenheimer, a staff rep for Local 1040. “If our members aren’t constantly calling their elected officials, their rights on the job are going to get trampled.”