Local 5058 Bargaining Update, September 2, 2022
We continue to wait for a complete proposal on wages, despite the hospital making over a billion dollars in profits during the past two years on the backs of our hard work
We continue to wait for a complete proposal on wages, despite the hospital making over a billion dollars in profits during the past two years on the backs of our hard work
We are happy to announce that because of the solidarity we have shown through petitions and other actions, we’ve been able to come to an agreement with the Hospital on a one year contract extension.
Your health insurance costs are going up unless we act together to stop it. We call on all HPAE negotiations unit employees to Call the Governor to say “No” to health insurance cost increases!!
We called for our membership to support the negotiations efforts and our membership came through at today’s session. We had over 70 people log into our caucus space and 40 were able to move to the Rutgers Zoom session.
Please arrange your schedule so that you can attend one of those scheduled times.
After Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday that New Jersey will no longer require COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated school and child care employees, state workers, and state contractors, only a few major government-imposed coronavirus restrictions remain across the state.
Nurses working at Cornerstone Behavioral Health Hospital in Berkeley Heights came to Thursday's commissioner board meeting dressed in the protective gear they wear while caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic to seek...
As many of you have learned, there was an incident at the hospital about 4 weeks ago that required the local police department to do an investigation here at the hospital.
It is now more important than ever to get involved and support your negotiations team. We need to you to collectively show Rutgers you stand behind our team.
We are reaching out to nurses who have been members of HPAE Local 5004 for 5 years or less. We have decided to have a ZOOM meeting which may be more amenable than a full day of discussion.
After five days of negotiations, we finally received a starting wage proposal from HMH that they acknowledge is not on par with other hospitals in the system.
HPAE local 5094 met on 8/10/22 for our ninth session of negotiations with Rutgers University. Our contract expired July 1, 2022.