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Hackensack Meridian Health is heading to Hunterdon County with its planned acquisition of Hunterdon Health. The partners jointly announced June 22 signing a letter of intent toward a partnership between the two New Jersey healthcare systems.
Management tried to cap peoples' PTO/TOB accruals and did not move many members' TOB into their PTO bank on May 31. This was a violation of APPENDIX H of our Contract.
We are aware that Inspira continues to issue suspensions to members who missed the December 1, 2025 deadline for HealthStreams completion. This was an earlier deadline than previous years.
Our union contract with HRH expires on 12/31/26. Fill out this Contract Survey to add your voice for higher wages, better benefits, and staffing that protects us and our patients!
We hosted a Solidarity Walk on Tuesday, June 30th (our contract expiration date) on all 3 Rutgers campuses! This brings visibility and lets Rutgers know that we're here, we're strong, and we're watching! Stay tuned for more actions coming up.
Nurses at Virtua Mount Holly have reached an agreement with the hospital, ending the threat of a strike.
We feel confident that the incoming President, Tanya Allen, and Treasurer, Jen Thurston, will strongly represent all our bargaining unit members by continuing to uphold and build upon our resilient foundation.
We just finished our 6th bargaining session with management. We have made very little progress. Management has provided no responses to any of our economic proposals.
About 70 nurses are threatening to go on strike at a large North Jersey rehabilitation center and nursing home in a move to force management to provide better staff-to-patient ratios, union leaders said on Tuesday, May 19.
We’re happy to announce that we won our vote by a total of 726 to 21. That's over 92% of our membership voted YES!
Negotiations are how we make proposals and assert to management that our interests are represented in the contract. Without a bargaining process, there would be no contract to protect our rights and privileges.
Nominations for the Local 8071R AFT Convention Delegates officially closed on April 27, 2026. Following the close of the nomination period, the local has received one (1) nomination.