They re moving people who weigh twice what they do, and breaking their backs doing it. There s no management. The workers are tired because they ve already worked so much overtime. And then it s just poor quality care. It s horrible.
Union leaders hold a press conference after delivering the petitions.
Not long ago, Faye heard about a New Jersey law he could barely believe existed. Under the law, all it takes is 50 signatures to spark a state investigation to determine if the wages being paid in a particular industry really are fair. If it is found that wages are indeed too low, the Labor Commissioner can appoint a Wage Board to set a fair wage for the industry and then adopt it as law. I thought everything we ve been trying to do for the past ten years, trying to rally other unions in the state to work with us on wage issues and we d never heard of this law. Nurse Doris Williams presents 100 times the signatures necessary to Lenny Katz, NJ Assistant Commissioner of Labor.