Two weeks after threatening to walk off the job, the union representing 800 nurses at Palisades Medical Center has agreed to a contract with hospital owner Hackensack Meridian, union leaders and hospital executives announced Saturday.
We have a reached a Tentative Agreement!! After a long and grueling day of bargaining we reached a settlement. Thanks to all of you standing with us in this fight we did this together!
Cooper University Health Care reached a tentative deal with its nursing union, just before their contract was set to expire. But a strike remains possible for Cooper's 1,500 nurses.
Nurses at Cooper University Health Care will go on strike if they cannot get nurse-to-patient ratios in their new contract, according to union leadership.
About 3,000 nurses have voted to authorize a strike at three New Jersey hospitals ... as they battle for mandatory staffing ratios to be placed in their contracts, union officials announced Tuesday.
Steve Adubato is joined by Debbie White, RN, President of Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE), to discuss the alarming rate of nurses leaving the industry and the ways safe staffing legislation in New Jersey can assist in retention.
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.”
A new study co-authored by Yale economist Zack Cooper links rising prices for hospital care to lax antitrust enforcement.
Healthcare union’s new position paper details how stress and burnout is causing exodus of workers from New Jersey hospitals; strikes loom across state as healthcare workers fed up over hospital understaffing bargain over expiring contracts EMERSON—Nurses and other healthcare workers
Healthcare union’s position paper will detail how stress and burnout is causing exodus of workers from New Jersey hospitals