On Friday July 12th, members of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees, AFT (HPAE) overwhelmingly ratified a four-year agreement covering 600 registered nurses at Rutgers University.
A clear majority of Registered Nurses who provide home health care services at Robert Wood Johnson Visiting Nurses Inc. filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a union election to organize their union with Health Professionals and Allied
HPAE met with management for another bargaining session on Monday, June 24th. Management presented several proposals that directly attack the rights of our members, such as: Per Diems would not be entitled to “just cause” protections if disciplined Extend probationary
On behalf of the 13,000 nurses and health professionals represented by HPAE, we applaud Governor Phil Murphy’s appointment of Judith Persichilli, BSN, RN as the next Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey – the first nurse to
We will now have an agreement which combines 5089 and 5135 into a single Registered Nurses contract. All HPAE registered nurses will now be on the same salary scale for the first time in 10 years.
The joint HPAE Local 5089 and 5135 bargaining teams will be holding additional information meetings on the main RBHS campuses and Edna Mahan UCHC location to review the terms of the new contract and to answer any questions before voting
After a marathon session yesterday with Rutgers that ended at around 1:00am, we are pleased to announce we have a joint tentative agreement on a new contract!
We resume negotiations with Rutgers on Tuesday morning with the goal of moving our contract to a settlement.
HPAE met with UH on Wednesday, May 22nd for another bargaining session that resulted in little progress being made.
We met with Rutgers today with the goal of moving our contract to a settlement. We have been diligently working to settle the contract that would merge our two contracts together and create one nursing bargaining unit, as it always
At the start of negotiations, HPAE proposed to strengthen the target staffing levels for the Med/Surg departments by reducing the maximum number of patients for each registered nurse to 6 from the current rate of 10