New Jersey Working Families Announces New Additions To Its Board
New Jersey Working Families Announces New Additions To Its Board
New Jersey Working Families has added more racial justice and community-based groups to the organization’s governing board
Camden, NJ: New Jersey Working Families Alliance has announced seven new additions to its state committee. The move broadens the board’s representation to include more community based organizations and racial justice groups. Currently the board, which is the body that approves endorsements and the overall strategic direction of the organization, is made up of many labor unions including CWA, AFSCME, ATU, SEIU, NJEA, and community-based groups like NJ Citizen Action, Make the Road, and Environment NJ, among many others. They will now be joined by NJ 11th for Change, Camden We Choose Coalition, Our Revolution Essex County, Camden County NAACP Branch #2080, South Jersey Women for Progressive Change, Latino Action Network, and the South Jersey Progressive Democrats.
“It’s an exciting time to be working to build a stronger, more powerful progressive movement in New Jersey,” said Sue Altman, Director of New Jersey Working Families. “Our Working Families board will bring together the the stalwart institutional experience and resources of NJ’s labor unions with grassroots organizations fighting in their local communities, and professional advocacy organizations fighting for progressive values in Trenton. Change will happen when we organize with all of our assets, together, pulling in the same direction.”
“I am beyond humbled to be asked to join the board of New Jersey Working Families, an organization that has fought to bring truly transformative progressive change to New Jersey,” said Justin Goldsman, Chair, Our Revolution Essex County. “I look forward to continuing to build on these past successes with my new colleagues as we strive to reach new heights and even more progressive accomplishments.”
“We admire New Jersey Working Families’ bravery, determination, and tireless effort in promoting accountable government, and are proud to join the board of this important grassroots organization,” said Mara Novak, Co-Executive Director of NJ 11th For Change.
“New Jersey Working Families has played a vital role in advocating for progressive policies and good governance that will benefit all New Jerseyans,” said Meredith Meisenheimer, South Jersey Women for Progressive Change. “South Jersey Women for Progressive Change has been honored to work alongside NJWF in building a sustainable grassroots progressive movement, and we are excited to continue to partner with them in this work as board members.”
“As president of Camden County NAACP Branch # 2080, I look forward to working with these progressive organizations and look forward to assisting in changing policies that help residents of New Jersey,” said Kevin Barfield, President of Camden County NAACP #2080.
The Working Families Party is a grassroots political party that recruits, trains, and elects the next generation of progressive leaders to office. In New Jersey, they’ve helped win important fights such as the fight to raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour, progressive taxation policies so that the rich pay their fair share, and making sure workers have earned sick leave, which just passed in 2019.
Nationally, the WFP helped elect longtime tenants organizer and progressive champion Jumaane Williams as Public Advocate in New York City, swelled the ranks of Chicago city council progressive caucus, made history in Philadelphia by electing Kendra Brooks, helped make Stephen Mason the first Black mayor of Cedar Hill, Texas, helped insurgent Latinx LGBTQ social worker Candi CdeBaca oust a longtime incumbent on the Denver City Council, and elected other council members from Morgantown, W.Va., to Phoenix, Ariz.
