September 4, 2015, Collingswood, NJ   Staff from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) kicked off the Labor Day weekend by participating in the 121st Annual Peter J. McGuire Labor Day Observance in Collingswood today. Chief of Staff Gary Hasenbalg joined local and elected officials for the event which pays homage to McGuire, a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor and advocate of the 40-hour work week. The event, hosted by the Southern New Jersey AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, presents scholarship awards to local college students followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington Park Cemetery in Pennsauken where a monument of Peter J. McGuire resides.
                                             

New Jersey Department of Labor Chief of Staff Gary Hasenbalg congratulates students
receiving educational scholarship awards at the 121st Annual  Peter J. McGuire Labor Day
Observance hosted by the Southern  New Jersey AFL-CIO Central Labor Council.

New Jersey Department of Labor Chief of Staff Gary Hasenbalg (right) views monument of
Peter J. McGuire during wreath-laying ceremony held at Arlington Park Cemetery in Pennsauken
along with Congressman Donald Norcross (left).

New Jersey Department of Labor Chief of Staff Gary Hasenbalg (left) stands with (L-R)
Susan Michielli, President, Southern NJ AFL-CIO Central Labor Council; Assemblyman
Gilbert “Whip” Wilson; and Congressman Donald Norcross in front of the Peter J. McGuire
monument at Arlington Park Cemetery in Pennsauken.