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Ahead of Election Season, New Jersey State AFL-CIO’s Labor Candidates School Grooms New Crop of Office-Seeking Union Members

It was a monumental weekend for 28 union members who graduated from the New Jersey State AFL-CIO’s 23rd Annual Labor Candidates School on Sunday.
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Hotel Trades and Airbnb Square Off in Jersey City Over Ordinance Regulating Short-Term Rentals

On June 26, the Hotel Trades Council celebrated the passage of a Jersey City ordinance that places regulations on Airbnb rentals. The ordinance safeguards the wages, benefits and jobs of hundreds of hotel workers in the Jersey City region. Moreover, it protects affordable housing and quality of life for tens of thousands of city residents.
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Rutgers Faculty Picket Board of Governors Meeting at University’s Newark Campus

The chants of frustrated faculty members disrupted an otherwise quiet campus in Newark on Tuesday, as hundreds gathered outside of the Rutgers University Paul Robeson Center to picket a Board of Governors meeting.
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Our Time Is Now: Leading with Passion, Purpose and Power

More than 300 union sisters from all sectors of organized labor gathered at the Hilton East Brunswick Hotel on March 1 for the Sixteenth Annual Women In Leadership Development (WILD) Conference. This two-day conference featured several distinguished speakers, including Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler and Alice Paul Institute Executive Director Lucienne Beard.