HPAE to hold a Safe Staffing, Saves LIVES Town Hall
Unionized nurses, healthcare workers and healthcare advocates from across the state will join HPAE at a Safe Staffing Town Hall in Cherry Hill at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 6, 2024.
Unionized nurses, healthcare workers and healthcare advocates from across the state will join HPAE at a Safe Staffing Town Hall in Cherry Hill at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 6, 2024.
We did not reach any tentative agreements on Wednesday. They gave us several counter proposals to review all of which were non-economic. We reviewed them and will respond on May 8. Nothing earth shattering.
Today (5/3), we had our 4th negotiation session. We had some back and forth regarding non-economic proposals. A major area of focus today was the ability to access all things related to scheduling, at home.
WE WILL BE GIVING AN UPDATE ON CURRENT NEGOTIATIONS AND TAKING A STRIKE VOTE.
On April 30, your Union Negotiations Team met with management for our third session. We continued to discuss CarePoint's bad financial situation, which has not improved.
Today we met with management for our third full day of bargaining for our new contract. We presented management with some new, mostly non-economic proposals.
Today HPAE continued the discussion on staffing and management’s proposal was to reject our staffing ratios because in their opinion “ratios do not work.”
All HPAE local 5103 members in good standing were mailed a ballot this week to vote for AFT and HPAE Convention delegates. Please take the time to review and cast your vote.
The Nominations/Election Committee announces that we are now accepting nominations to represent Local 8071R at this year’s HPAE State Convention, as well as the AFT National Convention.
As you have heard, Virtua believes they have the right to make unilateral changes to the dress code policy that would dictate what color scrubs our members can wear at work.