The HPAE 5094 United Bargaining Team at Rutgers is pleased to announce that we reached a tentative agreement with the University. The tentative agreement does not become our contract until our membership votes to ratify the agreement.
Following our last bargaining session, we reviewed the package presented by the employer with an open mind.
Members of HPAE came together across New Jersey to stand in solidarity for a strong contract with Rutgers University as our campaign approaches one year in negotiations and in the streets building the power that wins. Members made waves at
On Friday, June 2nd, we had our first negotiation session with Rowan University SOM and the state of New Jersey.
Send Your HPAE Team to bargaining on June 7 with your full support. On Tuesday, June 6th at 12:15 PM, Join an HPAE Solidarity Walk at locations across the state and tell Rutgers: We Deserve Better!
Register in advance for these meetings (please do so at least 1 hour before the meeting so we will have time to approve your registration and ensure you will be able to attend).
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
Next Tuesday, May 16th from 12-1:30p, we will be discussing and editing proposals drafts based on the survey results.
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
HPAE members at Rutgers are fighting hard for strong contracts as are the residents of SEIU-CIR who while employed by Rutgers, are vital clinical team members to our rank and file here at University Hospital.