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Special Education Teacher Fired After Complaining About Understaffing In South Jersey: Lawsuit Special Education Teacher Fired After Complaining About Understaffing In South Jersey: Lawsuit
Special Education Teacher Fired After Complaining About Understaffing In South Jersey: Lawsuit A special education teacher has sued a South Jersey school district for firing her after she complained about understaffing. Bryanna Mostak, 30, of Hamilton, was fired after taking a medical leave due to stress and anxiety. Mostak claims her supervisors failed to respond to her complaints as an elementary school teacher in the Bordentown Regional School District. Mostak began the 2021 school year with seven special education students  "who often had very aggressive or violent tendencies and suffered from numerous physical, emotional, behavioral, and psychological challenges," the laws…

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by Jon Craig
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Amazon Workers 'Treated Like Machinery' Strike At NJ Facility: Report Amazon Workers 'Treated Like Machinery' Strike At NJ Facility: Report
Amazon Workers 'Treated Like Machinery' Strike At NJ Facility: Report Some New Jersey Amazon workers upset by an imminent job site closing walked out in solidarity Wednesday, June 1. One Bellmawr worker told Eyewitness News he felt he was being treated like "warehouse machinery," not people. Amazon is reportedly closing the Camden County facility and forcing them to take shifts at a warehouse further away, the outlet said. But an Amazon spokeswoman said that Bellmawr's employees are being offered opportunities to work at five different sites that are as close as nine miles from their current location. "We’ll be closing one of our facilities in Bellmawr and …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87
Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 It wasn't a stretch to call Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a rock star. A private interment service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery for the petite but fiery champion of gender equality, who died Friday in Washington, D.C. Her family was with Ginsburg, who died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer, the court said. She was 87. "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg…

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by Jerry DeMarco