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For Release: April 8, 2015 Contact: Janet Bass (AFT), 202-879-4554 AaNA Labor Program Announces New Parnership in Alaska ANCHORAGE—The Alaska Nurses Association (AaNA) Labor Program formally announced today that it has agreed to affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers
From NJBIZ, April 7, 2015 A definitive merger agreement was announced Tuesday by Meridian Health and Raritan Bay Medical Center, but it’s only the first stage in the major transformation of New Jersey’s health care. Meridian and Hackensack University Health
From the New York Times, April 5, 2015 Julia Andino tried to ignore the insistent humming. It was after midnight and she was curled beneath the blankets alongside her sleeping child. But her cellphone kept vibrating. She tried to shake
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
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
Lobby Day was a great success. Over 300 members of HPAE and other healthcare unions in the Coalition for Patients Rights and Safe Staffing (CPRSS) came to Trenton to talk to state legislators about the need for staffing legislation, including
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
Our union coalition partner, the Rutgers AAUP-AFT faculty, have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract with Rutgers. Their agreement includes an important provision to protect raises that we too have been fighting for in our contract. Winning this
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