Hetty Rosenstein Archives - New Jersey Globe

Unions, activists rally for millionaire’s tax on statehouse steps

June 13, 2019 5:06 pmJune 14, 2019 7:39 am

Roughly 2,000 union members and activists arrayed in front of the Statehouse Annex Thursday to lobby the legislature to push through a millionaire’s tax sought by Gov. Phil Murphy. Interspersed in between the calls for a tax on high earners...

CWA endorses Rodriguez slate in West New York

May 8, 2019 1:22 pmMay 9, 2019 11:39 am

West New York mayoral candidate Gabriel Rodriguez, seeking to oust two-term incumbent Felix Roque in next week’s non-partisan municipal election, was endorsed today by the Communications Workers of America. “New Jersey is sick and tired of elected officials like Felix...

Labor group honors Peg Schaffer

April 28, 2019 8:22 pm

Democratic state vice chair Peg Schaffer received the Hubert H. Humphrey Friend of Labor award from the Middlesex-Somerset AFL-CIO labor council. Wayne Martiak, the business representative for IBEW 456, said that Schaffer “has for years stood alongside labor, fighting for...

Rosenstein regrets DeVos tweet

March 28, 2019 9:47 amMarch 28, 2019 10:15 am

New Jersey CWA state director Hetty Rosenstein says she regrets a tweet saying that she hopes U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos “dies a horrible, horrible death” and promises to choose her words more carefully in the future. “Late at...

Rosenstein wishes ‘horrible death’ on DeVos

March 27, 2019 12:58 pmMarch 27, 2019 4:48 pm

CWA State Director Hetty Rosenstein went further than others in her rebuke of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s proposed cuts to federal special education funding. “I hope she dies a horrible horrible death,” Rosenstein wrote on Twitter, linking a...

CWA members ratify state worker contract

March 20, 2019 4:41 pm

Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, New Jersey members voted to ratify their new state worker contract Wednesday. “We are proud to announce that our contract was overwhelmingly ratified,” CWA NJ Director Hetty Rosenstein said. “It is a fair agreement. Once...

Grassroots activists weigh in for Currie

December 21, 2018 4:18 pmDecember 21, 2018 7:27 pm

More than a dozen grassroots progressive activists have endorsed John Currie for re-election as Democratic State Chairman. Among the activists backing Currie are New Jersey CWA state director Hetty Rosenstein, New Jersey Working Families Alliance executive director Analilia Mejia, Action...