Content by Author John Westenberg

Local Updates
June 21, 2022

Since the RN Presidency ended in a tie, a runoff election will need to be run. The current RN President will stay in office until the runoff election is complete. The right to protest the conduct of an Officer Election

News
June 17, 2022

The number of workers’petitions seeking union representation filed with the National Labor Relations Board has jumped 57 percent for the first six months of Fiscal Year 2022 to 1,174.

Local Updates
June 16, 2022

The Hospital approached your local leadership earlier this week proposing to observe Juneteenth starting in 2023, but only in exchange for giving up the current Good Friday holiday.

Local Updates
June 16, 2022

Virtua is desperate to attract new nurses! It's no wonder, with record-high RN vacancies throughout the hospital and a shrinking number of nurses willing to work short-staffed at the bedside.

Local Updates
June 16, 2022

Your opinion is very important to creating our demands when we bargain with Hackensack Meridian Health. Our negotiations will begin in the Winter of 2022.

Local Updates
June 16, 2022

University Hospital recently proposed to exchange Good Friday as a holiday for Juneteenth beginning in 2023. HPAE’s initial position was that we should not be asked to give a holiday up for the Hospital to do the right thing...

Local Updates
June 08, 2022

Our next Union Meeting will be Tuesday, 6/14 at  American Legion Post 19 in Bayonne, with sessions at 8am, 12pm, & 4pm. Stop by to talk about out push to raise rates & enforce safe staffing. We also hope to have

Local Updates
June 07, 2022

HPAE is asking for your support as we demand Governor Murphy and the NJ lawmakers invest an additional $151 million in the University Hospital budget for upgraded and improved services to care for the most vulnerable of the community.