NJ Public Workers Boost Spirits with Food Drive

CWA Local 1036 members in New Jersey donate nearly 1,500 pounds of food to a Trenton food bank.

Members of CWA Local 1036 have collected nearly 1,500 pounds of food for a Trenton, N.J., food bank over the last two weeks, a special effort by public workers who are being attacked almost daily in the press by the state's anti-worker, job-slashing, benefit-cutting governor.

"Our members who participated really had their spirits lifted," said Rhonda Collins, who chairs Local 1036's Community Services Committee, which launched the food drive. A spokesman for the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank said the donation is one of the biggest the food bank has received.

The local, which represents 8,000 state, city and county workers, already is planning another food drive.