We achieved many improvements in the language of the CBA — now we must enforce those improvements. To ensure that members have a clear understanding of the contract changes, Union Officers will be posting on each unit’s Union Bulletin Board
Through a collaboration between HPAE and Drexel University Online, you and your immediate family members can now earn a top-ranked degree or certificate and receive special tuition rates when you enroll in one of Drexel's distinguished online programs.
The health care landscape has changed dramatically in the past decade, driven by reimbursement changes, hospital consolidations, health reform, and hospital and health system competition. In New Jersey, financially vulnerable hospitals have reduced services and staff, gone through bankruptcy or closed, undergone
The accelerated introduction of for-profit hospitals in New Jersey over the past five years presents a challenge for patient care advocates, state legislators, government regulators, consumers and health professionals. The availability, quality and affordability of health care in our communities
On January 25, 2012, the University ofMedicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Advisory Committee released their final report regarding the reorganization of medical higher education in New Jersey.While we hope that restructuring will have a positive impact on the health, education and
Our union, Local 5103 of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees, AFT, AFL-CIO (HPAE) representing Registered Nurses and Donor Collection Assistants are in the midst of a labor dispute with our employer, the American Red Cross Blood Services Division, Penn-Jersey
HPAE members formed the Committee on Political Education (COPE) to educate our elected officials about what is really going on in the health care system - and to fight for change. COPE organizes grass-roots mobilization efforts to win important legislation
HPAE is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a national union with over 1 million members. In addition, HPAE participates in many central labor councils throughout New Jersey and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both the AFT and the central
While some might consider New Jersey’s health care environment highly-regulated, in reality, control over quality, staffing and the allocation of precious healthcare dollars is largely in the hands of individual hospitals, operating in a competitive environment, and accountable more to