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News
At the same time that we must fend off attacks to State
Worker pensions, we are being demonized in the press. We are fighting a full court media blitz augmented by
Legislative grand-standing. Our leadership has formed committees.... for nearly three years, her committees have been
strategizing... a few more years, and they should have a plan!
Ordinarily, your Local leadership
would be plugging the holes on the boat and safeguarding the members; however, it seems that what they are doing now is actually
drilling more holes! We need a POSITIVE change.
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LOCAL 1040 IS SUED OVER ALLEGED DEFAMATORY
COMMENTS BY CAROLYN WADE.
There is a time to remain silent and be THOUGHT a fool. For others, there
is a compelling need to break that silence and remove all doubt.
Many of us heard the comments made by Carolyn
Wade during her cameo appearances at worksites trying to convince state workers to vote for the current contract.
Some of her comments were clearly true. Still, there were others that tetered on the fine high wire between
daft and dumb, without the benefit of a safety net below.
Carolyn Wade, and the other CWA Leaders falsely alleged
Carla Katz emailed union bargaining secrets to the Governor. This was found to be untrue after ALL of her emails to
and from the Governor were released to the public in what can only be called the most horrendous attack on a person's
privacy since the days of the Cold War!
We need LEADERSHIP, not division within our own ranks!
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Events
LOCAL
1040 BUDGET HEARING SILENCE
On March 24 and 25, 2010, Tom testified on the Fiscal Year 2011
Budget before the NJ Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Senate Budget Committee. Oddly, no one
from the Local was there, even though the budget clearrly showed a $700 Million surplus from last year; yet, they STILL have
not returned the money to the Pension System. In fact, this year's proposal is to pay NOTHING! Does anyone remember being told by Carolyn Wade that we would be able to FORCE the state to pay
what they are supposed to pay because it is "contractual" now?
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Local 1040 By-Laws, the CWA Constitution and the National Labor Relations Act provide the guidelines for Local
Officer elections. Generally, no officer of the Union can misuse the funds of the Union to promote their candidacy or
conduct their campaign... nor can they have employees of the Union do it for them. So when a Staff Representative, which
is an employee of the Union, asks you to sign a pledge of support for the President's slate of officers, it is permissable
ONLY if the Staff Rep is "off the clock." The same is true for the President's visits to a Branch
meetings. Even if the meetings are held after regular work hours, the Local has always required the Staff Representative's
attendance, making it an "on the clock" event. Therefore, no campaigning or promoting of a candidate is permitted.
WHICH STATE FACILITY WILL BE CLOSED NEXT???
As the Local 1040 leadership continues its deafening silence, the State has set its sights on downsizing institutions
under the guise of the "Olmstead Initiative Path to Progress."
In fact, if you click here, you can read the entire press release. Especially chilling is the talk about sending more developmentally disabled
individuals into an ill-prepared community setting and then calling it progress.
While this has been an on-going
process for several years now, the silence of our Local President has allowed the Administration to load the Department of
Human Services and the Division of Developmental Disabilities with imported help from Community-based Providers and sympathizers.
The result is the clearly evident desire to allow facilities to be run into the ground or to leak information about
negative issues to the press so as to make the closure more palatable to the public.
Do we REALLY want to give
them three more years to dismantle our jobs??? As it is, our leader has already given them a head start!
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