An overwhelming number of HPAE nurses at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and Cooper University Health Care have ratified new contracts with enforceable staffing ratios and substantial wage increases.
HPAE healthcare workers walk away from the Negotiations Table with Hackensack Meridian Health to discuss Strike plans with their membership.
Leaders of HPAE locals negotiating contract renewals at three large New Jersey hospital systems say members have authorized them to go out on strike if they are unable to win enforceable safe staffing ratios in their new contracts.
HPAE members are in bargaining with three large health systems to negotiate enforceable staffing ratios into new contracts. Such ratios will improve working conditions, reduce workplace stress, and help in retention of staff.
The City Council in Jersey City has passed a resolution supporting “safe staffing standards in collective bargaining agreements, and proposed legislation and hereby urges the NJ Legislature to pass the ‘Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act,’”
Unionized healthcare workers, legislators and advocates addressed the need to negotiate safe staffing in union contracts and pass the “Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act,” (S.2700/A.3683) into a law mandating safe patient-to-staff ratios in New Jersey hospitals. HPAE President Debbie
Unionized nurses, healthcare workers and healthcare advocates from across the state will join HPAE at a Safe Staffing Town Hall in Cherry Hill at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 6, 2024.
Members of HPAE applauded the Hudson County Board of Commissioners as they unanimously approved a resolution today supporting establishing safe staffing standards in collective bargaining agreements...
Healthcare union’s position paper will detail how stress and burnout is causing exodus of workers from New Jersey hospitals
Nursing case managers at Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill voted overwhelming today to join New Jersey’s largest union of healthcare workers, HPAE, in a National Labor Relations Board election.
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