TO: Mary Beth Gawenus, Clerk, FSCSC
FROM: David H. Weiner, President
DATE: February 28, 2010
SUBJECT: 252nd CWA Local 1081 Email 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. CWA Local 1081 submitted the Step III Class Action Grievance on behalf of all of our Union’s members due to what?
Answer: The discriminatory and dangerous decision by the administration of the County of Essex not to declare a state of emergency and order closed the Essex County Division of Welfare due to inclement weather.
2. Director Nigro’s Step II Class Action Contractual Grievance denial response of what date was as unacceptable to CWA Local 1081 and our aggrieved members as it was what?
Answer: February 10, 2010. Considerably curt.
- Article VIII. Holidays of the contract between CWA Local 1081 and the County of Essex stipulates what?
Answer: “the County will grant a holiday when the Governor, in his role as Chief Executive of the State of New Jersey, declares a holiday by Proclamation or when the County Executive of Essex declares a holiday for all County employees”.
- On the official internet web site of the State of New Jersey on February 10, 2010 was posted what?
Answer: “Please be advised that due to severe winter conditions all state offices are closed today, February 10, 2010.”
- The online edition of the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines the word “holiday” as what?
Answer: “an official day when you do not have to go to work or school”.
- Inasmuch as Governor Christie proclaimed February 10, 2010 an official day when State employees did not have to go to work due to the inclement weather, he effectively declared that day a what?
Answer: Holiday.
- As the resolution to the grievance, CWA Local 1081 respectfully reiterated our demand the Essex County Executive declare February 10, 2010 a what?
Answer: A holiday for all County employees.