Barranco to Serve as Labor Voice on OEG

Wayne NJ – The New Jersey Organization For Economic Growth has announced that Christian E. Barranco of Pompton Lakes has joined the organization’s Board of Directors.

Barranco will serve the organization as a specialist on labor-related issues as well as a liaison to organized labor.

Barranco is a veteran journeyman in IBEW Local 102 and has worked as a project manager and supervisor on many industrial and energy infrastructure projects in New Jersey for major  companies including McPhee Electric, EII, PSE&G and Conoco. He has also worked as a foreman and crew chief for large-scale electrical infrastructure and renewable energy projects throughout the state.  He has been a member of the union since 2003.

“We are proud to have Christian join our organization he will provide the OEG with his insight on important issues concerning organized labor and energy infrastructure,” said Chairman Joseph Caruso.

“As an organization that promotes economic growth, we recognize that we must embrace private-sector unions and their workers to incorporate their concerns about economic issues facing the working people of this state,” added Caruso.

Barranco said he is excited about the opportunity to work with and help guide the OEG to present labor’s side of the economic issues that New Jersey is confronting.

“The concerns of the hard working people in the private sector are often misunderstood and overlooked. We want New Jersey business’s to succeed so that we may have a vibrant and growing economy which benefits and creates opportunity for all. This is the key to ensuring that our skilled trade workers in the private sector are adequately compensated, protected and have good reason to remain here in NJ where we need them.” said Barranco.

“I look forward to working with Mr. Caruso and having the opportunity to be part of the important dialogue that the Organization for Economic Growth has been advancing since it began in December,” added Barranco.

Barranco lives in Pompton Lakes with his wife and their three children.