CODE RED Update and News, August 28, 2025
Local 5058 Deserves Safe Staffing at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore
HPAE Local 5058 continues to bargain with Hackensack Meridian at Jersey Shore University Medical Center as the September 8th contract expiration draws closer. Keep an eye out for the Safe Staffing Saves Lives roaming billboard. If you are at the Jersey Shore and spot the billboard, take a picture and post it. And don’t forget to use #WORKERSDESERVE #SAFESTAFFINGSAVESLIVES and tag HPAE on Facebook and Instagram.
Local 5058 RNs Urge Community Members to Stand with Them
Click here to visit HPAE’s YouTube Channel to hear Local 5058 RNs share their stories and urge the community to stand with them in their fight for guaranteed Safe Staffing at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
HPAE 2025 Professional Issues Conference
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 – HPAE Professional Issues Conference at the East Brunswick Hilton. Click here for registration information. Contact Barbara Rosen, HPAE First Vice President, for more information: [email protected].
Demand Safe Staffing Now!H
When We Fight Back Everyone Wins
HPAE Nurses and healthcare workers in bargaining are fighting for safe staffing ratios to keep all patients and workers safe. It is time for Safer Staffing Ratios at Every Hospital. Click to watch HPAE’s latest videos on YouTube. Protect All Patients, Safe Staffing Saves Lives.
End Medical Debt in NJ
NJ Citizen Action, NJ Appleseed Public Interest Law Center and NJ For Health Care Coalition created a powerful online resource designed to help New Jersey residents understand their rights and fight back against unfair medical debt and billing. EndMedDebtNJ.org is a new site offers practical tools, legal resources, and guidance to help people know their rights and protect themselves.
ORGANIZE with HPAE
HPAE is the largest healthcare workers’ union in New Jersey dedicated to winning improvements across the state for healthcare workers, our families, our patients, and our communities. Organizing a union at your workplace is the one thing you can do to bring predictability, fairness and accountability to your job. Healthcare workers throughout New Jersey are already standing with HPAE to secure better wages, better benefits and a better life with a union contract! Click here to learn more about how you can JOIN US!
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