The New Jersey State Electrical Workers Construction Division Association is backing Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the governor’s race.
Joseph Egan, the state association president and a former Democratic assemblyman from Middlesex County, said that Sherrill will “make bold investments in New Jersey’s energy infrastructure — which will lower utility costs, help make New Jersey energy independent, and bring good-paying union jobs to our state”
“Mikie will also make sure that we are building union, by protecting collective bargaining laws, ensuring that state-funded projects pay prevailing wages, and appointing a strong Commissioner of Labor and Attorney General who will enforce Project Labor Agreements and prosecute violators who do not pay proper wages or misclassify work,” Egan said.
Egan, the longtime Assembly Labor Committee chairman before his retirement two years ago, had backed former Senate President Steve Sweeney in the Democratic gubernatorial primary earlier this year.
Sherrill called members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers “key to building our energy future as well as continuing to build our future throughout the entire Garden State.”
“I’m grateful for their support as we work together to expand New Jersey’s energy supply to drive down costs — including solar, the cleanest, cheapest, and fastest to deploy source of energy — while also supporting working families and expanding pathways to union job,” she stated. “Union labor built New Jersey, and I refuse to go backwards.”
