March 7, 2008
Joyce Wilson Harley, Esq., Administrator
County of Essex
Hall of Records
465 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd , Rm. 510
Newark , NJ , 07102
Re: Belated Remuneration
Dear Ms. Wilson Harley:
Attached, please find the Step II Class Action Contractual Grievance CWA Local 1081 today composed and submitted to Essex County Division of Welfare Director Bruce Nigro “on behalf of our applicable adversely affected members who were due a pay increase which was purportedly scheduled to have been afforded them at the latest by today, the fifth pay period of 2008.”
According to Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo, as posted on the following page of the County of Essex’s web site at http://www.essex-countynj.org/index.php?section=essex/ceo, “Essex County is a great place to live, work and play”. Were the County truly a great place to work, the eligible members of CWA Local 1081 would have received their contractual pay increases today, the fifth pay period and not on the eighth pay period as is now purportedly planned.
In order they express their considerable consternation with the County’s insensitivity and deficiency in the abovementioned regard, CWA Local 1081 is encouraging our members to telephone you at (973) 621-4432 and exercise their rights under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution which stipulates “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Sincerely,
David H. Weiner, President, CWA Local 1081