N.J. Attorneys General Join IBEW
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In this new video from the Electrical Workers (IBEW), attorneys at the New Jersey Attorney General’s office tell why they came together to and joined the IBEW.
They say they were tired of scant benefits, stagnant pay and, most importantly, not having any power to change things in their workplace. IBEW Rep. Wyatt Earp says:
They wanted respect in the workplace, they wanted to be treated fairly and the promises that were made to them needed to be kept.
Deputy Attorney General Janine Long says lawyers won their union because they stuck together.
We really do have to make that effort to stick together over time. So you really need that commitment that I believe we have and the commitment has also been on the other half with IBEW.
Dionne Warwick: ‘Fair Pay for Air Play’ About Economic Justice
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Little did the public know that when they heard Dionne Warwick sing, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and other hits on the radio for the past four decades, none of the money made off the airplay found its way to her—it all went in the radio station owners’ pockets.
Now Warwick and other performers have a chance to finally get what they are due—but Big Radio CEOs are resorting to personal attacks in an effort to derail legislation that would pay performers like Warwick when their music is played on the radio.
Writing today on the Huffington Post, Warwick says the Civil Rights for Musicians Act (H.R. 848), dubbed “Fair Pay for Air Play,”
is about economic justice for African American artists. It’s about what’s right. And it’s about time.
