NJ Healthcare Workers Demand Safe Patient Care
On September 18th, CWA Locals 1031 and 1091 joined several other healthcare unions as well as elected leaders in Newark, NJ to rally alongside the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE) to demand a fair contract for HPAE members at University Hospital. HPAE’s central issue at University Hospital? SAFE STAFFING. When healthcare workers are forced to care for more patients than they can manage at a time, the consequences can be dire for both workers and patients, and study after study shows that this leads to high rates of burnout and staffing turnover.
As HPAE members fight for contractual staffing limits, CWA and other unions have also been fighting for the Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act, a bill introduced in February that would set enforceable patient-to-worker ratios for workers throughout New Jersey, depending on the type of care.
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