May 2014
Polluting Our Air, Water, and Politics
This winter saw families in Paulsboro and many other towns across America worrying about two kinds of pollution. Full Article by Debra McFadden, Assistant Director, WEC and Doug O'Malley, Executive Director, Environment NJ and WEC [...]
April 2014
Disasters Show Need for Stronger Safeguards
Here in New Jersey, huge sums of money will have to be spent to clean up the Passaic River, one of the most contaminated stretches of water in the world. Toxicants in the river include [...]
Victim of Bangladesh factory collapse in demonstration at Secaucus Retailer
A garment worker who was trapped in the rubble of a collapsed Bangladesh factory last year joined about four-dozen labor activists Friday in urging Secaucus-based The Children's Place to increase its payments to victims of [...]
March 2014
NJ has Chance to Provide Better Schools and Jobs
New Jersey has the 38th-worst unemployment rate in the nation, and for construction workers the jobless rate is even worse. At the same time, thousands of school children, their teachers and other staff face serious [...]
February 2014
Community, Public Health, and Labor Leaders Urge Federal Agencies to Prevent Chemical Disasters at Newark Hearing
Today, residents, community, labor, and environmental leaders gathered at a federal listening session to push the Obama administration to take bold steps to reduce the danger posed to millions of people by high-risk chemical facilities [...]
Plan to Build New Trenton Central High School Shows Power of Public Pressure
The recent announcement that Trenton Central High School (TCHS) will be rebuilt is the latest proof of the old saying that "if the people lead, the leaders will follow." Indeed, that has been the case [...]