As addiction treatment workers continue to be locked out by one of the nation’s largest for-profit addiction treatment corporations, American Addiction Centers (AAC), Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Phil Murphy, Candidate for NJ Governor
In a sign of growing support for their contract fight, AFT President Randi Weingarten and a leading candidate for NJ Governor Phil Murphy joined Local 5629 members at Sunrise House today to show their support for the workers.
On Tuesday, May 30th, AFT President Randi Weingarten and Phil Murphy, Candidate for New Jersey Governor, will join nurses and health professionals illegally locked out by American Addiction Centers (AAC).
HPAE Local 5629 members at Sunrise House, a substance abuse treatment center owned by the for-profit company American Addiction Centers (AAC), have been illegally locked out by management.
One of the nation’s largest for-profit addiction treatment chains, American Addiction Centers (AAC), has illegally locked out workers after failing to reach an agreement for a first contract with nurses and health professionals at Sunrise House in Lafayette, NJ.
After nine months of bargaining a first contract, 120 nurses and addiction treatment workers at Sunrise House are set to begin a three-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike tomorrow and will hold a kick-off rally on May 24 at Noon.
Please join us for a rally to support Sunrise House workers on Wednesday, May 24th from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm at 37 Sunset Inn Rd, Lafayette, New Jersey. Click here to RSVP. One hundred and twenty addiction treatment workers,
Send a message to AAC CEO Michael Cartwright: "Listen to your caregivers on the frontlines of NJ’s opioid and addiction crisis. Negotiate in good faith to fix dangerous conditions that threaten patients and staff at Sunrise House.”
Local 5629 members at Sunrise House, an in-patient addiction treatment center in Lafayette, New Jersey, are preparing for a three day, Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike beginning Wednesday, May 24. HPAE represents 120 nurses and addiction treatment workers at Sunrise
AAC is under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for failing to bargain in good faith, discriminating against workers, failing to provide a safe work environment and for failing to provide necessary information.
The nurses at Local 5118 came together in unity this morning to express their concerns about safe staffing, float districts, uninterrupted orientations for new nurses and charge nurses not having to take a patient assignment.
After nine months of bargaining for patient and worker safety at the for-profit owned Sunrise House, addiction treatment workers represented by HPAE have informed administration of their intent to conduct a three day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike at the