Every year at the August executive board meeting, CWA Local 1031 gives its members fourteen $500 scholarships and three $500 dependent care grants.
To be eligible, you must be a full, dues-paying member of Local 1031. If you aren’t yet a member, you can see your branch president, shop steward, or go to www.cwa1031.org/join to fill out a union card.
Entries are due by 5:00 PM on August 5th.
Full rules and more information are on the application form, which is available HERE
At the “Fund Healthcare, Not Corporate Profit” rally, workers called on state leaders to lower costs without shifting more of the burden onto workers, retirees, local governments, and families
More than 3,000 CWA District 1 members, retirees, elected officials, local leaders, and allies rallied at the New Jersey State House Annex on Thursday, June 18, calling on state leaders to confront New Jersey’s healthcare affordability crisis.
Members took their case directly to the State House, meeting with and hearing from a slate of legislators, labor leaders, and local officials.
The rally called on state leaders to adopt practical reforms, including stronger oversight of healthcare vendors and carriers, real transparency in pricing and drug costs, PBM reform and competitive bidding, and claims audits to root out waste. Above all, members called for protecting the State Health Benefits Program so it stays strong, affordable, and sustainable for the workers and retirees who depend on it.
Read more about the rally from CWA District 1 here…
It’s time for our elected leaders to step up and put us before corporate CEOs! Healthcare premiums will be one of the biggest items on the table when we bargain our contract next year, and we need real solutions to this issue now to contain costs.
Tell them to fix our broken tax system so that people and corporations making over $5 million per year pay their fair share in taxes so our communities are funded and we can contain skyrocketing healthcare costs as we bargain our next contract.
We’ve shouldered the financial burden in this state for far too long. While corporate CEOs boast about record profits, our costs just go up and up – especially when it comes to our healthcare. And corporations and the super-rich get away with paying a lower tax rate than the rest of us, leaving us to make up the difference.
It’s time to fix this!
Attention municipal employees! CWA and the NJ AFL-CIO are backing our union brother Gene Hill for Municipal Representative on the PERS Board of Trustees. Gene is President of AFSCME 2475, a Hamilton Township worker, and dedicated voice for bringing long term stability to PERS. Voting is happening now through May 29th.
From April 1 through April 30th, the SHBP will have a special open enrollment period ahead of the implementation of the plan changes negotiated last summer. You will only be able to change plans during this period, and cannot add/remove dependents, or adjust your dental or FSA plans.
For information on the plan changes, please visit our CWA Healthcare Ombudsperson page.