About two hundred workers at a pair of South Jersey health care firms voted to unionize in separate elections last week, New Jersey\u2019s largest healthcare union announced.<\/p>\n
Health Professionals and Allied Employees, the state\u2019s top healthcare labor union, said about 160 workers at Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice will unionize after a 95-27 vote. The group \u2014 which includes registered nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, and others \u2014 said they sought unionization due to unrealistic workloads.<\/p>\n
In a separate election, registered nurse case managers at Inspira Health voted 22-2 to unionize. The RN case managers, who help set up post-hospital care for patients, are based in Inspira\u2019s medical centers in Vineland, Elmer, and Bridgeton.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese elections show tremendous solidarity and commitment,\u201d HPAE President Debbie White said in a release. \u201cWe congratulate them on the wins! Unions give workers a voice and when healthcare workers have a greater voice in their workplace, patients always benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both new unions must now negotiate a contract with their respective employers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe workers need a seat at the table to fight for a contract that will refocus on quality care, emphasize the importance of safety, and improve the quality of life for staff,\u201d Bradley Nussbaum, a social worker at Samaritan, said.<\/p>\n
HPAE represents more than 14,000 nurses and healthcare officials in New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About two hundred workers at a pair of South Jersey health care firms voted to unionize in separate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-533461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}