1, the Securing Our Children’s Future Bond Act, thereby authorizing $500 million in state borrowing for improvements to public schools, vocational schools and community colleges. In addition, working families succeeded in passing Ballot Question No.
Kim joins Mikie Sherrill (11th District), Tom Malinowski (7th District) and Jeff Van Drew (2nd District), adding to the list of state federation-endorsed candidates who won open U.S. House races in the nation-beating Tom MacArthur and flipping a key district in New Jersey. Moreover, in a stunning upset, labor-endorsed candidate Andy Kim won the 3rd Congressional District-one of the most closely watched U.S. Thus far, Tuesday’s election has seen 50 victories achieved by rank-and-file union members running for public office (with two races still too close to call), bringing the program’s total number of election victories to 1,024 and its all-time win percentage to 76%. This election was especially significant in that the nationally renowned New Jersey State AFL-CIO Labor Candidates Program notched its 1,000th candidate victory, a mark many thought impossible to reach when the program first began more than two decades ago.
Ultimately, the results attest to the exceptional mobilization efforts of organized labor and the New Jersey State AFL-CIO’s political program, a program unparalleled by any other in the state or nation.
AFSCME, as well as the recent attacks on workers’ rights and union rights, these victories could not have come at a better time for working families in New Jersey. In light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Janus v.
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