HPAE. Putting Care First.

HPAE WHITE PAPER - JULY 2020

In a new HPAE report, “Exposed & At-Risk,” union members offer real-time first-hand accounts of caring for patients on the COVID-19 pandemic frontlines while battling employers for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other resources to do their life-saving work.

Coronavirus: What you need to know

Information about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak is ‘an emerging, rapidly evolving situation’ with the CDC issuing new updates several times a week. Keep up with the latest updates concerning the virus as well state and federal resources to help you better understand how it may affect you at your place of work.

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HPAE. Putting Care First.

COVID-19: Members in Memoriam

As frontline healthcare workers, all HPAE members are valiantly serving, protecting, caring for, and healing patients during this unprecedented time, with little concern for themselves. For those who have lost their lives in the line of duty due to COVID-19, we, as your sisters and brothers in the HPAE family, honor you here.

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Featured News

HPAE Statement on HMH Jersey Shore Medical Center lab techs and service workers filing for a union

Aug 04 2020

Healthcare corporations are quick to hail frontline healthcare workers as heroes but often fall short when it comes to actually treating the workers with the dignity and respect that they deserve on the job.

A new group of Jersey Shore University Medical Center workers file to join union

Aug 04 2020

A wide cross-section of employees at Jersey Shore University Medical Center have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to join a labor union, a union president said Monday.

Rutgers to lay off 62 mental health workers amid coronavirus budget crunch

Jul 27 2020

Marsha Escalliere learned she would be laid off from her job as a children’s counselor at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care in Essex County about three months after her father died from the coronavirus.

Salem Medical Center RNs reach tentative Agreement on a contract with employer

Jul 14 2020

HPAE Local 5142 members, who have been negotiating with Community Healthcare Associates, LLC, and its owner Bill Colgan, since December 2019, will vote over the next few days over whether to accept the terms their committee negotiated with the employer.

Jersey Shore nurses overwhelmingly ratify contract with Hackensack Meridian Health

Jul 08 2020

Jersey Shore University Medical Center unionized Nurses have ratified a collective bargaining agreement which provides nurses a seat at the table during the current COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and any future pandemic outbreaks.