Yesterday (5/27/2026) at bargaining we made incremental progress with management on our core issues of enforceable nurse to patient ratios, highly competitive pay and benefits and a safe workplace for us and our patients.
Tomorrow on Thursday the 28th, we will be holding our Car Caravan at 6:00pm starting in front of the Aldi at Lumberton Plaza.
At yesterday’s session (5/21/2026), over 20 members joined our bargaining committee to give powerful testimony about the effect that unsafe staffing is having at Virtua.
HPAE Local 5105 nurses were joined by elected leaders and community members at a Town Hall Monday night to urge Virtua Health to agree to enforceable safe staffing ratios in their union contract.
Thanks to the unity and power of our membership, we were able to start our bargaining session by telling management that 92% of our total membership voted to give us the authority to call for a strike if necessary. It
We’re happy to announce that we won our vote by a total of 726 to 21. That's over 92% of our membership voted YES!
Elected leaders and community members will join HPAE President Debbie White, RN, and HPAE Local 5105 nurses at a 6 p.m. Town Hall on Monday, May 18, 2026, to discuss bargaining Safe Staffing ratios...
We are holding a critically important General Membership Meeting next Thursday, May 14th to discuss and vote on strike authorization.
Nominations for the Local 5105 AFT Convention Delegates officially closed on April 27, 2026. Following the close of the nomination period, the local has received only one (1) nomination.
Management is realizing that we are ready to do what it takes to achieve our priorities in this contract, and we need to continue to build the pressure in the weeks ahead.
We did see some movement on our most critical issues of staffing and health and safety. While management's counters are nowhere close to where they need to be, they do show that the collective actions are making a huge difference.
As many of you know, Virtua is telling nurses to remove our “Safe Staffing Saves Lives” stickers. This violates federal labor law and we will be filing a charge with the National Labor Relations Board.