In virtual MLK Day rally, union calls for health care pay hike for airport workers
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 18, 2021
Kevin Brown, New Jersey district leader for Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union spoke during a virtual rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, calling for passage of legislation requiring that would airport support workers to be paid an additional $4.54 an hour to help cover healthcare costs.Zoom
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It wasn’t airport workers that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis to support when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, but rather sanitation workers, on strike for higher pay and better, safer working conditions.
Hurd Mine
Lisa Genovese, a Jefferson historian who has studied the abundant old mines extensively, said the main shaft to the Hurd Mine is just yards off one of the ramps between Route 15, Route 181 and Weldon Road.
The mine had a couple of underground lateral shafts as well as surface mines where the ore-containing rock was near the surface.
There continue to be rumors repeated on a scholarly website about New Jersey mines that when the interchange was being built in 1973, contractors poured concrete into a form for support. However, the form would not fill up and the pour was stopped.