2020 Performance Evaluation Merit Pay
On Tuesday, HMH informed us that they are going to give our members merit increases based on a performance evaluation scale that we did not negotiate.
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This N.J. nurse says he was fired for speaking out about safety. He’s fighting to reclaim his job
Adam Witt, a union leader and nurse at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, was fired in April 2020. He is fighting to get his job back. The flyers were posted at the hospital’s security stations, warning guards to
Local 5058 Member Update, May 14
HMH continues to violate your rights provided for in our contract. Ignoring the contract’s plain language, "to sunset the extra shift and critical shift differentials"… is the latest example.
Notice of Nominations and Election of Local 5058 Officers and Representatives
The Nominations/Election Committee announces that there are eight officer positions that are up for election this year. The officer positions are President, seven Vice Presidents as well as Unit Representatives.
Hospitals Struggle To Steer Clear Of Counterfeit Masks
Federal agents and others have seized more than 11 million counterfeit masks, including the N95 masks used in hospitals. What are some indicators of a fake mask?
Exclusive: Most U.S. firms hit with COVID-19 safety fines aren't paying up
U.S. workplace safety regulators have announced more than $4 million in penalties on more than 300 employers they say put workers at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Workers and Hospitals Grapple With Millions of Counterfeit N95 Masks
Thousands of counterfeit 3M respirators have slipped past U.S. investigators in recent months, making it to the cheeks and chins of health care workers and perplexing experts who say their quality is not vastly inferior to the real thing.
Should NJ hospitals be required to tell public about staff COVID-19 outbreaks?
The scope of staff sickness, absence and deaths at New Jersey hospitals due to COVID-19 remains unknown nine months into the pandemic, despite concerns that a reduced workforce may hamper the hospitals’ ability to absorb a rising wave of sick patients.
NJDOL Division of Unemployment Insurance
Use the link below to file a new unemployment claim in NJ, check the status of your claim or to certify for your weekly claim. Links exist to ask questions and to contact unemployment agents as well. https://www.myunemployment.nj.gov/
As COVID-19 surges in N.J., frontline workers are calling it quits: ‘I don’t want to gamble with my life.’
Michele Burlington survived the first wave of the coronavirus on the front lines, working in a hospital’s packed COVID-19 unit. But she wasn’t going to risk the second wave. Even if it meant giving up her career of 42 years.
‘How do you ever truly recover from seeing so much death?’ Anguished nurses face the pandemic’s second wave
The state reported 3,207 new cases Saturday — the highest number of daily positive tests since April 27, around the peak of the initial outbreak — and 1,392 hospitalizations, the most since June 11.
Jersey Shore University hospital workers vote on question: Should they join a union?
More than 1,000 housekeepers, technicians and other service workers at Jersey Shore University Medical Center will wrap up voting this week in an election to decide whether to join a labor union.