N.J. hospital, union nurses reach agreement on new contact
Unionized nurses at Jersey Shore University Medical Center have agreed to a new contract with Hackensack Meridian Health, which owns the Neptune facility.
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HPAE 2022 Endorsed Candidates
HPAE has endorsed the following candidates that we recommend electing in to office on November 8, 2022.
Local 5105 Officer Election Results
The Nominations/Election Committee announces that the following members have been elected as officers for Local 5105. It is an uncontested election and the committee has cast one vote on behalf of the slate.
Local 5058 Bargaining Update, August 11
After five days of negotiations, we finally received a starting wage proposal from HMH that they acknowledge is not on par with other hospitals in the system.
Priorities for American Rescue Plan Funds: Statement of Debbie White, RN, President, HPAE
We urge the Governor to designated funds to provide Hazard Pay for our healthcare workforce, who must remain at work, facing life threatening risks and continue to provide safe care for their patients.
Stressed NJ nurses, heroes amid pandemic, get mixed results in contract talks. Here's why
New Jersey’s nurses, lauded as heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic, have faced mixed results in labor negotiations with some of the state’s health systems this month. Unionized nurses have signed a new three-year contract with the state’s largest public hospital,
N.J. health system pushes back closure of child care program after employee outcry
Hackensack Meridian Health has pushed back the planned shutdown of its decades-old onsite child care program for employees by three months after fierce criticism from staff and a union representing health care workers. READ MORE
Hackensack Meridian to keep child care centers through the end of the year
Hackensack Meridian Health, under fire from employees and the community, will delay closing its child care centers until the end of the year, giving parents a three-month reprieve to find alternatives, the company said Tuesday. READ MORE
HPAE statement on HMH's closure of JSUMC's childcare center
Emerson, NJ— Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) nurses and healthcare workers have relied on the childcare center at their hospital for decades. Now, Hackensack Meridian Health, the corporation that owns JSUMC, will close the center on September 30, 2022, leaving
Do not look at this day in isolation but as one point in many landmark days in our nation’s history
My family’s history is rich and deep.
For me, Juneteenth is a day of reflection
When Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to begin fully enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, the law granting enslaved Americans their freedom had already been on the books for more than two years.
How soon before we start having “Juneteenth Sales Blasts”?
And, yet it’s a day that arrives with little recognition of what it is we’re commemorating. For me, it’s still a day of reflection and contemplation because I have not had time yet to build my family’s traditions around it.