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AP Images;  March 3, 2008 ;     273 words ... ... prepared to take up a paid leave bill sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, in ... would let workers take paid leave to care for a sick relative ... grant employees six weeks paid leave and prompted an emotional ...

Article: Paid leave insurance gains worker favor
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  July 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... adopted children. This paid leave — providing ... have begun calling it "paid leave insurance" to underscore ... system in 2002. Sen. Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, who ... cancer, proposed the paid leave bill. It would cover ...

Article: Sweeney interrupted by boos as state workers protest plan.(Sen. ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  June 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... yesterday as he struggled to speak at a news conference over state workers' catcalls and boos. Democratic State Sen. Stephen Sweeney, secretary-treasurer of Iron Workers Local 399, has proposed that unionized state workers take a 15 percent cut in salaries ...

Article: Statement by CWA District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton ...
PR Newswire;  June 15, 2006 ;     496 words ... ... statement by CWA District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton: This is to clarify misstatements put out by New Jersey State Senator Stephen Sweeney in a letter to Governor Corzine that he released today. Sweeney purports that CWA has said we are willing to engage in ...

Article: N.J. Approves Paid Leave for Family Care
AP Online;  April 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... take up to six weeks paid leave under a 2004 law. Most ... workers to take five weeks paid leave, but lawmakers haven ... Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney, the bill's leading ... annually would take paid leave. New Jersey has 4 ...

Article: N.J. offers 6 weeks of paid leave to workers
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 8, 2008 ;     634 words ... ... take up to six weeks paid leave under a 2004 law. Most ... workers to take five weeks paid leave, but lawmakers haven ... Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney, the bill's leading ... annually would take paid leave. New Jersey has 4 ...

Article: STEPHEN SWEENEY, 52 N.E. TELEPHONE MANAGER
The Boston Globe;  September 4, 1987 ;     400 words ...A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, in St. Brendan's Church, Dorchester, for Stephen J. Sweeney of Norwell, a communications manager for New England Telephone Co. Mr. Sweeney died Thursday at his home after a long illness. He was 52. Born in Boston, Mr. Sweeney was a graduate