A Lesson in Labor from Wayne DeAngelo: ‘If You Don’t Like it, Leave.’

HAMILTON – Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo of Mercer County, lawmaker and labor leader, electrician by trade, chair of the utilities committee, IBEW president/assistant business manager, and Building Trades movement diehard, wants the next governor to work with him and labor to prioritize a robust trades vocational program for the next generation of New Jersey workers.

He also wants the next governor to not just support project labor agreements (PLAs) but to be the state’s strongest public bulwark against corporations that would try to locate here without employing Building Trades labor.

New Jersey has considerable problems, including energy deficits produced in part by a wind initiative that went bust because of politics, a federal budget that disincentivizes solar and renewable energy,…