Cooper University Health Care reached a tentative deal with its nursing union, just before their contract was set to expire. But a strike remains possible for Cooper's 1,500 nurses.
Nurses at Cooper University Health Care will go on strike if they cannot get nurse-to-patient ratios in their new contract, according to union leadership.
About 3,000 nurses have voted to authorize a strike at three New Jersey hospitals ... as they battle for mandatory staffing ratios to be placed in their contracts, union officials announced Tuesday.
Steve Adubato is joined by Debbie White, RN, President of Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE), to discuss the alarming rate of nurses leaving the industry and the ways safe staffing legislation in New Jersey can assist in retention.
Today HPAE continued the discussion on staffing and management’s proposal was to reject our staffing ratios because in their opinion “ratios do not work.”
A new study co-authored by Yale economist Zack Cooper links rising prices for hospital care to lax antitrust enforcement.
Healthcare union’s new position paper details how stress and burnout is causing exodus of workers from New Jersey hospitals; strikes loom across state as healthcare workers fed up over hospital understaffing bargain over expiring contracts EMERSON—Nurses and other healthcare workers
Healthcare union’s position paper will detail how stress and burnout is causing exodus of workers from New Jersey hospitals
The hospital is planning for a massive renovation of its campus estimated to cost at least $1.8 billion, but there is no dedicated funding for the project in Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposed $56 billion spending plan.
50 years ago, a group of New Jersey nurses channeled Mahoney's pioneering spirit to form the Union that became the Health Professionals & Allies Employees, New Jersey largest union of healthcare workers.
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