Strike Averted at Southern Ocean Medical Center as Nurses agree on contract with staffing ratios
HPAE Local 5138 Nurses reach agreement on enforceable nurse-to-patient safe staffing ratios at Southern Ocean Medical Center
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Southern Ocean Medical Center Nurses ULP Strike against Hackensack Meridian Health
Nurses—overworked and stressed out due to short staffing—are going on strike on Monday, June 9th to demand enforceable nurse-to-patient ratios in their contract.
Nurses at HMH’s Southern Ocean Medical Center to go on Strike, June 9th
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.
Hospital Workers are Prepared to Strike for Safe Staffing Ratios
The thousands of HPAE nurses and healthcare professionals represented in Bergen, Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester Counties have made clear they will not accept contracts that do not include enforceable nurse-to-patient ratios.
HPAE statement on the federal budget
The budget deal passed by the Republicans in the House of Representatives strips away support programs from the people who need it most in order to give large tax cuts to those who need it the least.
HMH Healthcare Workers question why Ocean County patients can’t have the same safe care as Hudson County
Contract for Nurses saving lives at Hackensack Meridian Health’s hospital expired April 30
Southern Ocean Nurses Overwhelmingly Authorize Strike
Nurses saving lives at the Hackensack Meridian Health hospital are renegotiating a collective bargaining agreement that expires next week
Addiction Treatment Workers file for a Union Election to Vote to Join HPAE
On January 8th, workers filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking a union election in which workers will vote whether to join the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE), AFT/AFL-CIO.
HPAE local 5094’s University Hospital professional members ratify a new contract with historic gains in wages and benefits
HPAE Local 5094 professional members have ratified a new three-year contract with University Hospital in Newark, which includes new benefits, improved language for existing benefits as well as wage increases to bring lower-paid workers to some level of parity.
HPAE applauds Jersey City’s Council resolution supporting the union’s demand that Hudson Regional Hospital honor union contracts
The City Council in Jersey City has passed a resolution demanding that Hudson Regional Hospital.