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U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, and Reps. Chris Smith, Tom MacArthur and Donald Norcross, applauded the good news, saying the new jets would help ensure the long-term viability of the installation for decades to come.

"These refueling tankers will bring new jobs to New Jersey and make our base an indispensable starting point for national security missions on the East Coast," Norcross, D-1st of Camden, added. "I've long been fighting to bring these tankers to South Jersey because the mission is crucial to both national security and the livelihood of the over 42,000 New Jerseyans who are employed at the base, as well as the local communities that will benefit once the tankers are located at the joint base."

Norcross, an electrician by trade and a longtime proponent of blue-collar jobs (and the training to get them), said that "I worked with my hands and I am proud of it."

"To make our economy work for all of us, not just the rich and powerful, working people must be able to stand and fight for higher wages, better health care and a more secure retirement," said Norcross, a former electrician who became assistant business manager for an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local, the only former union business agent in the House.

Democrats, joined by AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, will release a report today on the “Future of Work Wages and Labor” assembled by Reps. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.). The report proposes raising the minimum wage, guaranteeing workers paid leave, banning stock buybacks, ramping up antitrust enforcement, indexing the overtime salary threshold to inflation, expanding sector-wide collective bargaining, and various other reforms to counter the blow to workers and unions dealt by the Supreme Court’s June decision in Janus v. AFSCME. 

“What better way to celebrate the American worker than to remove their 2.5 percent raise for the year. That’s what Donald Trump announced yesterday,” Rep. Donald Norcross said. “The raise for federal workers, he’s putting a halt on. Why? Because we can’t afford it. So let me get this — you give a trillion away to the top 1 percent people, and you cut the pay of the public workers that need that 2 percent raise.”