Local 5147 member update, December 17, 2020
We met again with management today for our eighth bargaining session. There was some good back and forth and the conversation was productive.
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Local 5147 member update, December 15, 2020
Today was our seventh negotiations session with management at HRH. Unfortunately, they are moving at a glacial pace.
Meet the nurse who was the first person in N.J. to get a COVID-19 vaccine
Beniquez was the first of 80 healthcare workers slated to receive their first dose of the vaccine at University Hospital on Tuesday, the beginning of the state’s latest chapter in fighting a virus that has killed more than 17,000 of
HPAE Statements on UH nurse receiving the first COVID-19 vaccine
Healthcare workers have faced greater risks and rates of exposure throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We are grateful that an HPAE nurse, working in the Emergency Room at University Hospital, was the first to be vaccinated in New Jersey.
Statement of President Debbie White, RN, before the NJ Assembly Appropriations Committee, Tuesday, December 15, 2020
I am here today to speak to A.4129 sponsored by Assemblyman Spearman which will track data on healthcare workers who are exposed, fallen ill and have died due to COVID-19. While we are not pleased with the amendments to the
Local 5147 bargaining update, December 11, 2020
We had our sixth bargaining session with management. Yesterday they left us with their initial offer: a 1.6% raise over three years. They also moved in our direction on some of our demands regarding differentials
NJ.com Special Report: Crossroads of a plague
The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making.
Feds blocking sale of N.J. hospital to Hackensack Meridian, saying it would drive up consumer prices
The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday it intends to block the proposed the sale of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center to Hackensack Meridian Health because the hospital chain would monopolize the Bergen County market and drive up prices.
FTC Challenges Hackensack Meridian Health, Inc.’s Proposed Acquisition of Competitor Englewood Healthcare Foundation
New Jersey healthcare system merger would increase price and reduce quality of healthcare
Palisades Medical Center’s medical technologists, pathologists and phlebotomists unanimously ratify Quest Diagnostics contract
New deal as Quest, the giant laboratory services corporation, takes over those functions at all Hackensack Meridian Health hospitals in January 2021.
Join us for our end of year Local Union Membership Meetings – by Zoom and phone!
This is our first virtual membership meeting: we will meet by Zoom – a videoconferencing app. If you don’t have Zoom (its easy to install on your smartphone or computer), you can call in as well.
Sick time donation for a member in need
The holiday season is often called the season of giving and, in that tradition, we are asking the membership to step up in support of a long time HPAE member and UBHC Clinician Dana Bush.