Politics and Remembrances as Union Leaders Celebrate Labor Day in South Jersey

NJPen. By Matt Skoufalos

...U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (D-NJ) tried to put a human face on the impact of the labor shutdown for union families, noting the number of suicides he'd observed in the local trade groups in the past six years, coming off the worst of the recession.

.."In the building trades, all the jobs are part-time," Norcross said. "They're only for a short duration. The shedding of responsibility and dignity at the end of our careers is what's at stake in the coming election."

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