9 N.J hosipitals to be struck June 2

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what retirement benefits are these hospitals asking for and what do they have already????

Do they have medical retirement benefits???

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Most hospitals in PA/NJ do not provide medical retirement benefits. That is one of the issues HPAE is negotiating.

Local union newletters with contract info: http://www.hpae.org/hpaelocals.htm

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As the average age of the nursing work force continues to creep towards fifty, the issue of retiree health insurance becomes all the more important. How many nurses are capable of working until 65 or 67 after thirty years of wear and tear at the bedside? Studies show that nursing has one of the highest injury rates of any profession. Finding an affordable health insurance option for "early" retirees (at least until medicare kicks in) is a very real problem for a lot of nurses. I guess those nurses could wait until national healthcare reform comes along and finally covers every american...but that might take awhile. I hope they get it.

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Do you know what specifically the 9 or 11 NJ hospitals are asking for regarding retirement benefits???

Are they asking for benefits that can be used if they live anywhere in the USA or only at the hospitals they retire from???

How about sick time buyback? If you have left over sick time that has accumulated and had not been used? I just saw a big debate over this regarding school principals.

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660 nurses not allowed to work?

Replacement nurses instead?

What disrespect!

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Thank you for the update!

...Englewood Hospital, another facility staffed by HPAE members, locked out its nurses yesterday, but after pressure from elected officials the hospital agreed to end the lockout on Monday...

http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-1/114932600739880.xml&coll=3

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Specializes in PACU, ED.

Thanks for the updates Mark. I haven't seen much union activity around here so it's interesting to see what goes on where they have strong unions.

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Was it worth it? Did the union really help the nurses? Are they better of now than they were before the strike?lockout?

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