Nurses and Healthcare Workers Launch Fight Against Staffing Crisis in New Jersey
New Jersey’s overworked, overburdened workforce call on lawmakers to pass safe staffing bill.
Safe Staffing
Code Red Position Paper I: Understaffed. Overworked. Unsafe for everyone.
The urgent need for Safe Staffing legislation in New Jersey. Understaffing is driving our healthcare system to the brink of collapse.That is why HPAE, New Jersey’s largest union of healthcare workers,is pushing the state legislature to pass a law in
Our health care system is a gathering catastrophe | Opinion
The problem is clear. Frontline health care workers continue to migrate out of bedside nursing at an alarming rate because of untenable working conditions.
NJ HPAE Eyeing NYSNA Staffing Patient Ratio Pact
A contract deal between New York City private hospitals and the New York State Nurses Association which provides for enforceable patient nurse staffing ratios is being hailed by New Jersey’s largest union of healthcare workers as an essential benchmark.
HPAE's statement of solidarity with NYC nurses who are on strike
HPAE, New Jersey's largest union of healthcare workers, stands in solidarity with our New York nursing colleagues as they fight to improve working conditions, salaries and staffing policies at their hospitals.
Labor peace? Jersey Shore hospital nurses ratify contract with pay hikes, more staff
Nurses at Jersey Shore University Medical Center ratified a three-year contract that is expected to increase wages, keep veteran nurses on board and enhance security at the hospital, union officials said Sunday.
‘Chilling’ findings in survey of NJ nurses (video)
They were hailed as heroes during the pandemic and helped bring the state through the public health crisis. Now a new survey shows many nurses in New Jersey have considered leaving the job and say a statewide staffing shortage is
Jersey Shore union survey finds nurses lack trust in Hackensack Meridian management (News 12 broadcast)
A Jersey Shore union survey shows that nurses at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center lack trust in their management.
Nurses at this N.J. hospital say they wouldn’t feel safe being treated at their own facility
More than half the union nurses at a New Jersey hospital wouldn’t feel safe being treated at their own facility. An overwhelming majority said the hospital is not a good place to work.
The exodus: COVID traumatized a generation of N.J. nurses. Many are in crisis and leaving the field.
Nurses across New Jersey were walloped when the pandemic arrived, swept up in a vortex of death and trauma and grief. Witnessing death is part of the job.
Local 5058 Contract Update – July 29, 2022
Bargaining Update July 29, 2022 In these negotiations with Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), our message to the employer is Respect Us. Protect Us, Support Us. As negotiations progress, we will provide regular updates. Our strength is all of us standing
HPAE United at Rutgers Local 5089 Bargaining update - July 29, 2022
Bargaining Update for Rutgers University: July 29, 2022 and we still do not have a contract HPAE local 5089 met on 7/29/22 for our seventh session of negotiations with Rutgers University. Our contract expired July 1, 2022. It is now