Local 5131 Special Event!
HPAE 5131 invites you to a special membership meeting with guest speaker Donna Cardillo, RN. on Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
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Local 5131 Union Update: Arbitration Win!
We are writing to offer some explanation regarding an email received by all members earlier this week. The email would have come from Denise Lambrecht on the afternoon of Tuesday, 10/8, with the subject line Arbitrator Union Nurses.
Local 5131 September 2025 Union Update
We would like to formally invite you all to our winter membership dinner on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at the Grove at Centerton.
Local 5131 August 2025 Union Update
We hope you have all taken the time to review the changes to our contract that have been posted on our official local website. Currently, we are in the process of proofreading the language we negotiated to ensure it is
Nurses at Inspira Health win guaranteed nurse-to-patients safe staffing ratios
Nurses of HPAE Locals 5131, 5142 and 5621 at Inspira Health have ratified new groundbreaking contracts with guaranteed nurse-to-patient safe staffing ratios as well as improved wages, benefits and working conditions.
Local 5131 June 2025 Union Update
Congratulations on your new contract! There are many new things and changes included that aren’t as interesting as wages, and we highly encourage you to read everything yourself.
Ratification Update (email sent on 6/4/2025)
We would like to thank each and every one of you for all of your support throughout these negotiations, and for coming out for our ratification meetings. It has been a long and emotional process for everyone.
Local 5131 Negotiations Update: Contract Ratified
We are pleased to announce that the Local 5131 membership has ratified our new contract agreement.
Inspira Bargaining Update: Tentative Agreement Reached!
We are pleased to inform you that on May 31, 2025, we officially reached a tentative agreement with Inspira on our new contract!
Inspira Bargaining Update, May 29, 2025
As of today, 5/29, we have a few new tentative agreements for your review. See below. After last week’s historic strike vote, we have seen more movement at the table related to the simpler proposals.
New Jersey’s largest nurses union warns of a possible strike if hospitals don’t provide safe staffing ratios
Inspira Health Network would be hardest hit if Health Professionals and Allied Employees, the state’s largest nurses union, choose to go on strike.
Hospital Workers are Prepared to Strike for Safe Staffing Ratios
The thousands of HPAE nurses and healthcare professionals represented in Bergen, Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester Counties have made clear they will not accept contracts that do not include enforceable nurse-to-patient ratios.