From NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, July 8, 2015 TRENTON — A year after state Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd proposed a battery of changes that would require hospitals to disclose financial information to the public, she has not taken any
From NJ Spotlight, July 7, 2015 While Gov. Chris Christie’s latest proposal to reduce government spending on public-employee healthcare has stalled, a pilot program with the same goal backed by Senate President Stephen Sweeney is moving forward. A vote yesterday
July 6, 2015 RNs at Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, NJ will be conducting informational picketing at the hospital on Saturday, July 11, 11 am to 1 pm. The RNs, who are represented by the New York State Nurses
From the New York Times, July 3, 2015 The health insurer Aetna said on Friday that it had agreed to acquire its smaller rival Humana for $37 billion in cash and stock, signaling the start of what may become a
From NJBIZ, July 1, 2015 CarePoint Health and the union representing 1,250 nurses and other health care workers at its Bayonne and Jersey City hospitals have reached a tentative agreement on a contract, the union said Wednesday. The contract talks
From the Jersey Journal, June 30, 2015 A tentative contract agreement was reached tonight between CarePoint Health hospitals in Bayonne and Jersey City and the union representing 1,250 nurses and healthcare workers. The agreement between the hospitals and the Health
From NJ Spotlight, June 29, 2015 Nonprofit hospitals across New Jersey could be liable for millions of dollars in annual property taxes, under a ruling by a tax-court judge that highlighted the difficulty in separating the charitable and for-profit activities
From Reuters, June 30, 2015 The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to take up a case that could weaken public sector unions, a challenge by 10 nonunion public school teachers who say California’s requirement that they pay the equivalent
“ From the Huffington Post, column by President Barack Obama, June 29, 2015 ….We’ve got to keep making sure hard work is rewarded. Right now, too many Americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve. That’s partly
“ From the NJ AFL-CIO, June 5, 2015 New Jersey State AFL-CIO President Charles Wowkanech and Secretary-Treasurer Laurel Brennan expressed the federation’s support for a proposal by Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto calling on Gov. Christie