New Jersey’s statewide minimum wage will increase by $1 to $15.13 per hour for most employees on Jan. 1, 2024, making it one of a small number of states to cross the $15 threshold. The hourly rate exceeds the goal set by legislation signed into law in February 2019 to raise the minimum wage to at least […]
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Controversial Barrow Street Closure to Remain in Effect through December
The controversial closure of a section of Barrow Street that crosses the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza will remain in effect through the end of the year. According to a notice yesterday from Jersey City Department of Infrastructure, Barrow Street between Christopher Columbus Drive and Bay Street is to remain closed under a “pilot” that went […]
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Couple Says They Were Fired For Organizing Union in Downtown Building
Activists from the two-million member Service Employees International Union gathered on a tree-lined street in Paulus Hook yesterday to protest. Their cause: a married couple fired from their jobs in a luxury waterfront building where a one-bedroom apartment rents for $3,500 a month. Nick and Madeline Rivera, said the SEIU, were let go for union […]
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Local Not-for-Profit for Disabled People Receives Grant from Bank
A local not-for-profit that provides training and employment opportunities for people with disabilities has announced the receipt of a large grant from a bank’s foundation. Yesterday, Hudson Community Enterprises announced that it was awarded $100,000 from The Provident Bank Foundation to support their new Center for Employment and Inclusion for the Deaf and Hard of […]
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Closure of Downtown Street Has Businesses Seeing Red
The closure of a small piece of Downtown roadway has become the latest flashpoint on the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza, with business owners and some residents squaring off against Mayor Fulop, Ward E Councilman James Solomon, and the Harsimus Cove Association. In June, with Solomon’s support, Mayor Fulop ordered Barrow Street between Christopher Columbus Drive […]
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Letter: Keep Barrow Street Closed
I’m a resident of Erie Street and I support the Barrow Street closure. The letter from business owners – whom I respect and whose stores I patronize regularly – seems to center on the issue of loading and unloading trucks. That is a legitimate concern that is in the public interest to solve for. I […]
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Letter: Residents and Businesses Want Barrow Street Reopened
We are writing to you as the residents and small business owners of Jersey City opposed to the Administration’s closure of Barrow Street between Christopher Columbus Boulevard and Bay Street in Downtown Jersey City. This dramatic change came to our attention via a social media announcement on June 22nd, 2023, one day before the closure. […]
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Local Truck Stop Cheated Workers Out of 100k in Overtime
A truck stop on Tonnele Avenue in Jersey City has been hit with a large bill for overtime owed to its employees. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, Petroline Inc., operator of Putnam Truck Stop, at 565 Tonnele Ave., cheated 15 of its gas station attendants out of $100,000 in overtime […]
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“They Won the Battle But Not the War,” Says Union Chief
Santo Della Monica, president of Local 245, is unbowed following an unfavorable arbitration ruling that could cost the union over $20 million. “They won the battle but not the war. … This is only step one. We’re going to step two.” Based on a technicality, a state arbitrator ruled May 18 that Jersey City has […]
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Local Writers Picket Jersey City Film Productions
Armed with horns, bells, placards, and the power of their voices, a group from the Writers Guild of America gathered this afternoon in front of Angel Ramos Park on Wayne Street downtown. Their target: the filming of a new Billy Crystal series in St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church across the street. Over the noise of the […]