TO: Fred Testa, FSW, OCSE, Hall of Records
FROM: David H. Weiner, President
DATE: February 8, 2010
SUBJECT: 250th CWA Local 1081 Email Trivia Contest Winner!
Congratulations, you are last week's CWA Local 1081 Trivia Contest winner. Please contact CWA Local 1081 Secretary Treasurer Vera Winns at (973) 623-1081, or preferably by E-mail at vwinns@oel.state.nj.us, to collect your $50.00 prize. You were the first to correctly answer all of the following questions. Remember, you may not play again for ninety (90) days:
1. On January 15, 2010, CWA Local 1081 wrote a memo to our members announcing that “Following many months of hard work by CWA Local 1081, work that included grieving the matter all the way to a still pending arbitration case, the administration of Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo finally installed a Plexiglas partition upon the reception booth located within the lobby of the County-owned 50 South Clinton Street”. Whom did our Union thank for making the installation of the reception booth’s Plexiglas partitions our members’ wish come true?
Answer:
- Essex County Division of Welfare Director Bruce Nigro.
- Essex County Division of Welfare Chief of Administrative Services Marc Pilchman
- Essex County Department of Public Works Director Philip LiVecchi
- Essex County Department of Public Works Assistant Director Frank Pasucci.
- Food Stamp Office ASFS Linda Bass.
- On January 26, 2010, CWA Local 1081 wrote a memo to our members announcing the Step I Class Action Contractual Grievance response of January 20, 2009 from ASFS David Gawenus to CWA Local 1081’s grievance on behalf of all of our members assigned to the Downtown Citizen Services Center whom he had prohibited from wearing any manner of corduroy pants. Despite information our Union had received to the contrary, Mr. Gawenus maintained that “corduroy pants have never been prohibited” where and that “Also, no one assigned to the Downtown Citizen Service Center has ever been sent home for wearing” what?
Answer: The Downtown Citizen Service Center. Corduroy pants.
- On January 29, 2010 CWA Local 1081 wrote and submitted to Director Nigro a Step II Class Action Contractual Grievance, on behalf of all of our members assigned by the County to park their personal vehicles within the East Park Street parking lot, to protest the County of Essex’s failure to halt the purported practice by the lot’s attendants sitting within our members’ vehicles and running the engines in order to keep warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Our Union forwarded to all of our members that same day a rapidly and responsibly responsive email reply from the owner of the parking lot, Mr. Miles Berger, stating “After an immediate investigation of the facts stated in Mr. Weiner’s letter, I have determined that he is absolutely” what, “The sitting in vehicles for convenience will stop as of” when, “All parking lot employees have been warned as of” when, “Any employee caught sitting in a County employee’s car with the motor running etc. will be” what and “I apologize for their inappropriate” what?
Answer: Correct. Now. 9:45 AM 1/29/10. Terminated. Actions.