Local 5105 update: new quarantine & exposure guidelines from Virtua
We received an email at 6pm on Friday, November 13th stating that, in the new CORONA VIRUS Update #68, they were announcing a change to the quarantine guidelines.
Nominations for the local 5118 officer elections are now open (deadline is 12/10)
The Nominations/Election Committee announces that there are seven (7) local officer positions that are up for election this year. They are President, 5 Vice Presidents and Secretary/Treasurer.
Nominations for the local 5004 officer elections are now open (deadline is 12/10)
The Nominations/Election Committee announces that there are nine (9) local officer positions that are up for election this year.
Update on Critical Shift Pay for Extra Shifts
Saturday afternoon the union was able to negotiate CNA's into the critical shift pay for extra shifts added.
New Jersey 7-day COVID average highest since outbreak began (video)
"It feels as if we are on a railroad track watching a speeding train hurtling toward us, knowing it will eventually hit us," said HPAE President Debbie White, RN. "What is quickly becoming clear to us is that this surge
Local 5147 negotiations update, November 19, 2020
Yesterday we had our third negotiation session with management. At this session management provided us with a set of their initial proposals.
As COVID-19 surges in N.J., frontline workers are calling it quits: ‘I don’t want to gamble with my life.’
Michele Burlington survived the first wave of the coronavirus on the front lines, working in a hospital’s packed COVID-19 unit. But she wasn’t going to risk the second wave. Even if it meant giving up her career of 42 years.
HPAE Statement on COVID-19 resurgence concerns
A second COVID-19 surge is now upon us here in New Jersey. It feels as if we are on a railroad track watching a speeding train hurtling toward us, knowing it will eventually hit us. Cases are trending up so
RWJBarnabas, Trinitas clinch definitive merger agreement
Trinitas Regional Medical Center and its affiliates will become part of RWJBarnabas Health under a definitive merger agreement the systems entered into on Nov. 11.
In NJ, wary health care workers want more data on COVID-19 vaccine
Frontline workers are in line to receive the first round of an estimated 100,000 vaccine doses (video).