If you want to get to a place where we can move management, be at our upcoming membership meetings, we will discuss this in detail and voice your view: your active participation is key to settling the best contract possible
Your HPAE negotiations team met with Rutgers University on May 2, 2023, in good faith to negotiate our successor agreement.
The positive change that I am looking for will come if Rutgers can agree to fair contracts with labor unions that respect the sacrifices and humanity of workers, an ideal that Rutgers’ leaders often give lip service to but hardly
The University moved in tiny increments of a quarter of a percent in the third and fourth years — to 3% for all four years of the contract, with one-time bonuses of 1.5% and 0.5% in the first and second
Your committee on negotiations met with management on 3/29 where we passed our most recent wage proposal — 6.5% and a step movement retroactive to 7/1/22 and on 7/1/23, and 6% and a step movement on 7/1/24 and 7/1/25
HPAE Solidarity with AAUP faculty strike
Please attribute the following statement to HPAE President Debbie White, RN: Although HPAE is not on strike, we support our brothers and sisters at AAUP-AFT. We have also experienced the lack of movement and stall tactics exhibited by Rutgers at
Unity photos show that HPAE membership supports our HPAE Bargaining Teams and our campaign for strong contracts for all union members at Rutgers. Add your team’s unity to the wave of solidarity building across the state.
Collectively, we have the power to win. Joining union actions is your right, is safe, and makes a difference in what we see from Rutgers at the bargaining table.
Unity photos show that HPAE membership supports our HPAE Bargaining Teams and our campaign for strong contracts for all union members at Rutgers. Add your team's unity to the wave of solidarity building across the state.
As a result of the collective action of our united membership, our bargaining team is beginning to see positive movement from the employer in negotiations.
While this small movement shows that workers coming together to put pressure on the University does make a difference, it also shows that we will need to do much more to get the contract we all deserve.