November 18, 2016
Dear Friends,
Thank you for joining us at the 2016 WEC Awards Dinner & 30th
Anniversary Celebration! We appreciate your support and participation as
we honor the five outstanding honorees and celebrate the 30th anniversary
of WEC’s founding.
Because of our honorees’ work, workers are better able to stand up for
their rights; environmental justice issues have been brought to light;
nurses and healthcare professionals have safer working conditions; unions
and environmental organizations have worked together on numerous
issues, defying the misconception that the environment and the economy
are always at odds.
As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we must acknowledge the many
leaders, coalition partners and members that have helped establish and
protect the fundamental health and safety safeguards that are essential
to our workplaces and communities. Included in this book, please find a
timeline of WEC’s accomplishments, as well as a list of all our former
board members. Without the support of these individuals, and their
organizations, many of the accomplishments about which we are so proud,
would not have been possible.
As Professor Brian Mayer said in his book, Blue-Green Coalition:
Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities (2009), “New
Jersey’s statewide blue-green alliance, the Work Environment Council,
has accomplished perhaps more than any of the other partnerships
between blues and greens.”
Congratulations again to all of our distinguished honorees. Thank you
as well to everyone that sponsored, placed an ad in our commemorative
journal, or purchased a ticket. We rely on your support to continue our
work and we look forward to working with you to continue advancing our
collective agenda for the next thirty years.
Honoring our past and looking to the future,
Rev. Fletcher Harper
Dan Fatton
President Executive Director