January 2021
January 12: Exploring Public Health Efforts to Test, Monitor, and Contact Trace COVID-19 Infections
In our first webinar of the new year, we welcomed Betsy Marshall, PhD, Epidemiologist, Rutgers School of Public Health, Paschal Nwako, PhD, MPH, County Health Officer & Public Health Coordinator, Camden County NJ, and Lindsay Berg [...]
December 2020
December 22: A COVID-19 Year in Review
This week we rounded out the year with a panel of guests who helped us understand how COVID-19 has affected their members in 2020, new challenges we face as we head into the second wave, [...]
December 15: The State of the State: COVID-19 Q and A with the Governor’s Office, DOL, and DOH
Today we heard from the Governor’s Office and state agencies on NJ’s near and long-term plans to slow the spread of COVID-19, including the rollout of a newly available vaccine and the implementation of worker [...]
December 8: Race, Class, and Covid
This week we were joined by Les Leopold, co-founder and Executive Director of the Labor Institute. Les, who is the author of several books on the financialization of the US Economy, including Runaway Inequality: An [...]
December 1: Tackling Covid-19 through Training and Health and Safety Committee
This week,, we were joined by representatives from the Communication Workers of America, including Fran Ehret, CWA NJ National Staff Representative, Bill Bradley, CWA NJ Senior Campaign Lead, Jim McAsey, CWA NJ National Staff Representative, Keith Felder, [...]
November 2020
November 17: NJ Executive Order 192 – What are the New COVID-19 Protections for Workers?
This week's webinar focused on Executive Order (EO) 192 which Governor Murphy signed on October 28 and went into effect on November 5. The EO, one of the strongest in the country, mandates a series of [...]