Local Updates

Local Updates
July 01, 2022

Rowan SOM and Virtua announced their intention to affiliate earlier this year. This agreement has not been signed yet, but the parties are hoping to sign one soon. The CWA and HPAE have requested a copy of the agreement when

Local Updates
June 29, 2022

The University continues to delay productive negotiations at every session we have scheduled. At today’s session, the University did not have any additional responses to the reserved proposals and only presented one proposal on the management side.

Local Updates
June 27, 2022

Join members of the HPAE Bargaining Teams and Contract Action Team at a series of upcoming Unity Days at both in person and in virtual spaces beginning in July. Get Bargaining Updates, Show Solidarity, and Take Action for a strong

Local Updates
June 24, 2022

HPAE local 5094 met on 6/21/22 for our fourth session of negotiations with Rutgers University. Our contract is set to expire July 1, 2022. The show of solidarity today in our session was a boost for our negotiations team.

Local Updates
June 24, 2022

HPAE Local 5089 met on 6/16/22 and 6/23/22 for our third and fourth sessions of negotiations with Rutgers University. It had been a month since our last session. We filed unfair labor charges against the University for failure to bargain

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

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.