The dedicated Local 5118 Union Reps met last Sunday at one of their regular rep meetings. The focus of this meeting was the Reps’ role in the upcoming negotiations and their rights as Union Reps. Local 5118 Reps recently supported a class action
Over 20 HPAE local Presidents and LEB members attended the second annual HPAE Leadership Development Program at Rutgers University's Labor Education Center this week.
As the November 8th election nears, HPAE has announced its endorsements for candidates in federal, state, county and local election races in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Contract negotiations which were held last month remained extremely contentious. The hospital continues to reject our key proposals around union security, protecting our rights as Union members and wages.
On October 11, the Union and the Medical Center (MC) settled the Layoff Arbitration which was filed in 2012. Due to the passage of time, the Union determined that clarifying the process for the future was the most important thing
In 2015 Arbitrator Gerard Restaino found the Medical Center (MC) in violation of Contract Section 4.11, Positions. This section states that the MC will be required to create and post positions on units when the need is established through the
Rita Hrscko, a former President of Local 5058/Jersey Shore University Medical Center and a long-time HPAE union activist, is retiring after a nursing career that has spanned 40 years.
This is the fifth straight year of relatively low premium growth (family coverage growing between 3 and 4 percentage points each year), but the stability for premiums belies some other changes that have occurred during the period.
Scores of Philadelphia service workers, such as janitors and security guards, will get better pay under a law expanding the city’s prevailing wage regulations that Mayor Kenney signed Thursday.
Local 5186 officers, Reps, and members attended HPAE's 2016 convention on October 6 and 7. HPAE members joined together to discuss, plan and vote on resolutions to advance an agenda to protect our members and communities.