The response to my essay on Alexander Hamilton’s New Jersey exploits was very gratifying.
Labor and Employment
By DAWN MILLER
March 30, 2024
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - The Spotswood School District is holding a Special Services Job Fair on Saturday, April 13. Spotswood Schools are looking to fill current and anticipated openings for the following positions: Elementary School Psychologist Elementary School Nurse Elementary School Special ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - Members of the Communication Workers of America Local 1031 which represents the library workers at the East Brunswick Public Library staged a protest this Saturday to bring attention to the need for "equitable salary increases" and the fair treatment of part-time workers who ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The employee, crushed to death at an Avenel auto parts business on Dec. 28th, is now identified as 38-year-old Orlando O. Feliciano, on the job just eight days when the fatal accident happened. Feliciano, from New Brunswick, leaves behind his wife of 15 years, Carmen Moto ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Many of the 1,700 nurses who had been on strike for 134 days quietly returned to their posts at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital on Monday morning. Dozens of them filed into the hospital, hurried past a prominent sign the hospital had hung welcoming them back, and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Nurses began to arrive Saturday morning in the basement of the Magyar Reformed Church, just as they have for the past four months. But rather than gathering to assemble picket signs and chug down some water, they had come for a Christmas party. After Friday’s announcement ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – An end to the 133-day nurses strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital could come as soon as Friday. About 1,700 striking nurses are voting on whether to accept the latest tentative agreement struck between their union and negotiators from Robert Wood Johnson ...
EDISON, NJ - The school district is seeking preschool expansion aide through the Department of Education for the next school year, according to a message from the district. Edison's schools are hoping to provide full-day universal preschool for a portion of students starting in September ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and the union representing 1,700 nurses have reached an agreement on terms to end a strike that started Aug. 4. “A memorandum of agreement was signed by both parties and will be presented over the next several days to union members ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - The Spotswood School District's Schoenly School has an immediate opening for a paraprofessional. Schoenly is the youngest school in the Spotswood School District, housing preschool through first-graders. The hours listed in the advertisement are Monday through Friday, from 8:10 a.m.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Bernie Sanders sat on the left side of the stage – the far left, you could say – and fiddled with papers, adjusted his glasses and listened for nearly 90 minutes as nurses testified, labor leaders opined, and a health care system was maligned. By the time the Vermont senator ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Someone might have to call for a nurse by the time this labor battle is over. Bernie Sanders took some swipes at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital executives, and they countered with a few jabs of their own on the eve of Friday’s Senate hearing in New Brunswick to focus ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Representatives from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital have accepted an invitation to meet with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (D) and are eager to set the record straight about the 80-day nurses strike. It’s not clear whether Mark Manigan, president of RWJBarnabas Health, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Officials at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital say the union representing 1,700 striking nurses “continues to mislead the public” when it comes to the core labor issue of staffing. In a statement from spokesperson Wendy Gottsegen released Friday – a day when a six-hour ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The striking Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital nurses who had stationed themselves on Little Albany Street brandished signs and chatted among themselves, as the ceaseless hum of a nearby generator filled the crisp, autumn air. If Wednesday night was any indication, the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Representatives of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital said they are “deeply disappointed” that 1,700 nurses voted Tuesday to prolong their strike. A federal mediator had given the nurses represented by United Steel Workers 4-200 until Tuesday to accept the terms of the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – For Linda Jenney, one of the striking Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital nurses who will converge on Maplewood’s Memorial Park, Saturday night’s march was about calling out the role "corporate greed" has played in negotiations. Jenney said moving their picket lines from ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The 1,700 striking Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital nurses are feeling the sting after having lost their employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. Surveying Somerset Street, where striking nurses on Tuesday formed the daily picket lines by blowing whistles, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – All the way from Vermont, Bernie Sanders delivered a message loud and clear: Give the 1,700 striking nurses from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital a contract that includes more robust staffing. The senator spoke directly to the 400 or so nurses who crowded together on ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – As a transport nurse who treats patients who are being whisked via ambulance to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Jessica Newcomb is accustomed to bumpy rides. But life took a sharp turn for her and 1,700 fellow nurses on Aug. 4 when they went on strike. The nurses ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – First, she started dancing. Then she commandeered the microphone and began to sing along as one of Bruce Springsteen’s biggest hits boomed from the DJ’s speakers. Glory Days for Judy Danella? Probably not exactly the words she’d pick to describe the past 19 days of her ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Striking Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital nurses have over the past 15 days invited local leaders to join them on the picket line as a sign of support. On Friday, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-06) may have brought a sliver of hope, too. Pallone, addressing about 250 nurses ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – “Michelle” was reassigned to postmortem care as the first wave of COVID-19 cases took Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital by storm. On the first morning, she was tasked with wrapping up a man – ventilation tube and all – to be moved to the morgue after he died ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The 1,700 striking nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital have a high-profile admirer: Sen. Bernie Sanders. The longest-serving independent politician in Congress and former Democratic presidential candidate took to Twitter on Friday, Aug. 11 to throw his support ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The leaders of the union representing 1,700 striking nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital rejected a proposal during a bargaining session brokered by a mediator on Wednesday, Aug. 9. Judy Danella, the president of the union, said the latest proposal was similar ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – As many as 1,500 striking nurses and their supporters turned out for a candlelight vigil Tuesday, Aug. 8. It marked the biggest and loudest crowd since the nurses represented by United Steel Workers 4-200 walked off their jobs at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital last ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Gov. Phil Murphy’s office and Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6), in their first public comments on the ongoing nurses strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, expressed their hopes it would be resolved soon. “The governor recognizes and values the hard work of ...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - The South Brunswick School District will be hosting a job fair for special education teachers and education specialists, according to the district’s website. The job fair will be on Monday, August 14th, 2023 at 3:30 PM at the Board of Education office at 231 Blackhorse ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Representatives for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and a union representing 1,700 nurses are scheduled to sit down at the bargaining table Wednesday, Aug. 9. The meeting, brokered by a mediator, will be the first since the nurses went on strike Friday ...
