Local 5131 Negotiations Update: Contract Ratified
We are pleased to announce that the Local 5131 membership has ratified our new contract agreement.
We are pleased to announce that the Local 5131 membership has ratified our new contract agreement.
Our fight for safe staffing and fair wages is our priority. We don’t want to strike on Monday at 7:00 AM – but we will if we have to.
The members have voted, 81% voted in support of the tentative agreement. WE HAVE A CONTRACT!!
HMH has proposed many takeaways which the union has rejected.
We are pleased to inform you that on May 31, 2025, we officially reached a tentative agreement with Inspira on our new contract!
Management has not backed down from their greedy proposals to steal tens of thousands of dollars from your pockets over the next three years.
The negotiations team has called for an open-ended strike. This means that it would last until we reach an agreement with the hospital that we can ratify.
The contract expired on April 30th with negotiations resuming on May 29th. With no movement from the employer, negotiations quickly broke down without an agreement.
Nurses at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin say they are ready to go on strike in 10 days if they can’t reach an agreement over staffing levels in a new contract with Hackensack Meridian Health.
As of today, 5/29, we have a few new tentative agreements for your review. See below. After last week’s historic strike vote, we have seen more movement at the table related to the simpler proposals.