Encouraging

Connecticut governor elect Daniel P Malloy gave an encouraging sign when forming his transition team with the aim of creating jobs and moving his state out of the last position for no job creation. Left by his predecessor who was a republican that was anti labor, we here in why did you join the union believe that is a positive and encouraging sign on Malloy’s part and should be applauded.

Blue collar workers need jobs without a question and they must be created. We have enough with this non sense rhetoric coming from the republicans of small government, deficit reduction and suspending spending it is obvious they don't care for the blue collar workers. We are not going to agree to their point of view, we want jobs creation.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie who is a republican has killed the Access to the Region’s Core tunnel project and should be voted out of office in the next election cycle. It is true he is throwing his hefty weight around as was said by previous governor Jon Corzine. We would like to remind the Local 100 membership who reside in the Garden state that they should reject his policies which are only aimed at hurting the blue collar workers and labor. With his empty rhetoric of suspending spending and reducing deficit, it would be great if he came openly to say that he is against blue collar and labor. We encourage the Local 100 membership to move out of garden state and cross the Henry Hudson river and move into New York where they would be spared the commuting paying tolls, gas, insurance, and maintenance of their cars well being and time. 

We here in the Empire state are encouraged by the governor elect Andrew Mark Cuomo and his transition team which composes a committee on economic development and labor. We are happy with the transition team members selected due to the fact that they will have the blue collar jobs in mind. That is a step towards the right direction. 

We here in why did you join the union believe that Jay H Walder will get the boot. Governor elect transition team may not allow New Yorkers to be punished by Walder’s manipulations of the service cuts. It is an encouraging sign that new leadership is looking towards creating blue collar jobs and that is what we need.