Stay informed - February Union Update! - Health Professionals & Allied Employees

Stay informed – February Union Update!

THANK YOU to all who turned out for our event on January 22nd! We had over 170 members in attendance from our Local alone. This is a fabulous starting point for negotiations, but we can’t rest on our laurels. We need even more people at our next event!

Our next big event will be General Membership meetings on February 25th. Here are the details:

Feb 25th at 8am, 5pm and 8pm.
Hampton Inn
2134 W. Landis Ave
Vineland, NJ 08360

We will be going over the results of the bargaining survey and discussing our planned proposals for negotiations, so it is important that all of you are there to stay informed and participate. Our Staff Rep, Anna, and our Field Organizer, John, will both be in attendance. We will also have plenty of union merch to give away so that we can all represent our union at work and in the community!

If you have not completed the survey yet, there is still time! We plan to continue collecting responses until February 15th. We are at about 360 responses right now– let’s see if we can get to 500!

Here is the survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/756P7QQ

We work for one of the largest and most powerful employers in the region, and it sometimes feels as though they are immovable…but at almost 900 RNs, we are one of the largest private sector unions in South Jersey. When combined with our two sister Locals, 5621 (Mullica Hill/Woodbury/Deptford) and 5142 (Mannington), we are over 1,750 strong, capable union nurses standing together.

1750 nurses can move mountains– and our bosses– if we all work together! Inspira cannot function without us. This year, we must remind them of that fact!

In solidarity,

Your HPAE Local 5131 Executive Board:
Caroline Sands, RN, President
Karen Mackin Johnson, RN, Vice President
Jeanie Harow, RN, Vice President
Kelly Fordyce, RN, Grievance Chair
Karen Bailey, RN, Secretary-Treasurer