CWA Local 1031 is asking our members in NJ PERS to please nominate Tom Bruno for re-election so he can get his name on the ballot.  Tom is a retired CWA state employee, who has continued to work hard on our behalf, and it is imperative we continue to maintain a state worker representative vote on the Board when his term ends.

Nominations may be done digitally here: https://vote.election-america.com/pers-state/

If you want more information about Tom, please visit http://TomBruno.org, where you will find a lot of info about PERS, the State Investment Council, of which he is a member, as well as State Health Benefits.

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Since being elected by 92,000 NJ State workers in 2007, Tom has fought tirelessly for public worker pension security.  He has appeared on television news outlets and has been featured in newspaper, magazine and radio interviews defending public pensions as the deferred wages of public workers.  As PERS Board Chair, he and his Board colleagues made history by filing a first-ever lawsuit against a sitting Governor to restore payments to the fund on behalf of public workers.  He succesfully demanded reductions in hedge fund allocations and the consequential management fees while on the State Investment Council (SIC),  and spearheaded efforts, along with other union colleagues on the SIC, to inject Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria into the investment analysis, along with the creation of the ESG subcommittee within the SIC.  Few have had the tenacity and willingness to take on the status quo on behalf of public workers!  More recently, he and the PERS Board of Trustees have mounted a campaign to stop Senator Sweeney’s attempt to destabilize the PERS by divorcing the Local and County parts of PERS from the Fund and setting up a separate Pension with an appointed (not elected) Board of Trustees with the power to privatize the fund (Bill # S-3522).