HPAE Healthcare Workers Ratify Contract to Protects Patients with Safe Staffing Ratios
The new three-year contract improves wages, health and sick time benefits, and violence prevention
The new three-year contract improves wages, health and sick time benefits, and violence prevention
HPAE Local 5147 members, including Registered Nurses, Professionals, Technical Staff, and Service Workers, have reached a tentative agreement on a three-year union contract with Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus, NJ.
Our bargaining committee is sending a call out to all our members to vote on ratifying the agreement settled on January 31st, 2024 with Hudson Regional.
We spent a lot of time working on and discussing our staffing proposal. In the end, we presented management with a comprehensive counter on staffing that (we believe) addresses concerns from both sides.
We met with management for another full day of bargaining for our new contract. We spent most of the day composing a comprehensive economic counter proposal to provide to them.
On January 4, we met with management for another full day of bargaining for our new contract. We had a mostly productive day with good discussion and several more tentative agreements executed.
As you have likely now heard, we have come to an agreement with management on our new health insurance plan. We believe this plan is a significant upgrade from our old health insurance.
We presented management with several proposals on staffing issues (charge nurse assignments, conversion language to create more FT/PT positions) as well as some modifications of our proposal on terminal benefits.
Agenda: Upcoming Negotiations & Rep Recruitment
Our contract expires at the stroke of midnight, December 31st, 2023. We are currently surveying our membership to see what matters most to them.
This month’s local 5147 newsletter contains introductory messages from local President Emer Frani as well as the VPs of Nursing and Services.
When you voted on our positions, you sent a message. You gave us not just your vote of confidence in representing you in the workplace but you also entrusted us to keep your future best interests at heart.