April 2, 2015 Local 5004 Vice President Becky Esquivel from Englewood Hospital and HPAE Public Policy staff Sandra Lane attended the AFL-CIO’s Common Sense Economics training hosted by Passaic County YES (Youth Engagement in Solidarity) yesterday evening in Clifton, NJ
From NJBIZ, April 1, 2015 The Valley Health System in Ridgewood on Wednesday announced a cardiac care affiliation with the Cleveland Clinic, one of the largest and most prestigious health care systems and which for the past 20 years has
10 Ways to Correct Privatization’s Mistakes at Bergen Regional Medical Center Ann Twomey, President, HPAE February 26, 2016 Over and over, privatization schemes in New Jersey have failed consumers, workers, and taxpayers alike, often raising costs and diminishing services for
“ March 30, 2015 The 2015 Labor Power List is composed of the 50 most powerful labor leaders in New Jersey, according to PolitickerNJ, an online journal of politics and current affairs. Taking into account the complexity and diversity of
From Scrubs: The Nurse’s Guide to Good Living, March 20, 2015 Nurses have been saying it all along: adequate hospital staffing is the key to excellent care. And get this—according to a recent poll, they’re not alone. That’s right—though voters
From NJ Spotlight, March 23, 2015 “New Jersey’s highest-paid hospital executives have had a busy two years since the last time NJ Spotlight compiled this list — and the busiest execs have seen the sharpest pay increases. Seven executives received
From the New York Times, March 19, 2015 I had never seen someone so yellow. It was as if someone had taken a highlighter to the whites of her eyes and coated her skin with a layer of mustard. In
From PolitickerNJ, March 16, 2015 TRENTON — More than 300 nurses representing six different unions from across New Jersey mulled about the statehouse halls today in a lobby day rally to rouse support for a bill that would set nurse-to-patient
March 16, 2015 Several hundred members of HPAE and our union partners in the Coalition for Patient Rights and Safe Staffing came to Trenton today to lobby state legislators to support a safe staffing law which provides for nurse to
From NJ Spotlight, March 13, 2015 New Jersey hospitals should have more nurses working each shift – and the state should inspect those hospitals yearly. That’s what people in the state want, at least according to a poll commissioned by