NJ Activists Talk "Toolkit" with Legislators

CWA activists from all over the state continued the push to educate lawmakers about Chris Christie’s anti-worker “Toolkit” legislation working its way through the state legislature. Following news from State Senate President Sweeney (D-Deptford) that the Senate plans to vote on “Toolkit” proposals in September and October, CWAers doubled down on their efforts to get the message out.    Members of Locals 1037 and 1082 met with Senator Bob Smith (D-Piscataway) last Wednesday, making the case that destroying workers’ rights won’t turn New Jersey around. “The governor and some people seem to be using these examples of extremely wealthy people given extreme benefits and using that as a tool to take away the benefits of people who are just ordinary working people and are barely getting by,” said Keven Crawley, a staff rep from Local 1037 who attended the meeting. “It’s not the right thing to do to the hardworking people who make this state run.”   Watch below:

  Leslie Dominguez-Rodriguez of Local 1082 took issue with a statement Christie likes to make: That there are two classes of people in New Jersey--"public employees who receive rich benefits and those who pay for them."   "Let him come work one full day in our office, then come home, and live my life," said Dominguez-Rodriguez.  "One day, or a week, and let him think we're 'fat cats.'"