Kessler Hospital will be able to pay employees for one of the two weeks of wages stilled owed to them. Paychecks from the week of March 1 through March 7, 2009 will be available in the Hospital from 12PM to 6PM on Tuesday June 23, 2009 and from 8AM to 3PM Wednesday June 24. Any [...]
JNESO Statement on the closure of Kessler Memorial Hospital: The Union representing nearly 100 nurses and professional employees at Kessler Hospital in Hammonton, NJ, expressed sadness and outrage over the hospital’s closure Thursday, blaming poor management for the hospital’s woes. “This loss of Kessler Memorial Hospital is tragic, inexcusable and utterly avoidable – and Hospital [...]
After a long negotiating process, the bargaining unit members overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new contract on November 6, 2008. Despite extreme financial problems at the hospital the bargaining team did a great job protecting your rights and benefits while preserving the hospital. The new contract provides for one united Union with incentives for pool [...]
There was a great letter to the editor in Wednesday’s Hammonton News, thanking Kessler nurses for their hard work. Here it is in its entirety: In light of the recent financial resurrection of Kessler Memorial Hospital, I want to share my incredibly positive experience with the local readership. On July 4, I was admitted to [...]
On Wednesday, July 30, the JNESO members at Kessler voted overwhelmingly to authorize the bargaining team to call a strike if necessary. If hospital management recognizes the work we do and the sacrifices we’ve made to keep Kessler Memorial Hospital running, and acknowledges that by: maintaining our contractual rights keeping competitive wages for recruitment [...]
As of press time, Kessler Local officers and business reps finished their fifth round of negotiations with management, to little avail. Because of this, the Local will be holding a strike authorization vote on June 30. After giving management more than a year to fix the financial mistakes that took them into bankruptcy, resulting in [...]
Jneso has given management dates for negotiations as far back as February 2008. Management has chosen to ignore our request to bargain a new contract. As you are all aware our contract was extended for a year to 7pm on March 31,2008 without any increase in salary. We have gone on close to three years without an increase in salary. We have [...]
New Jersey’s Commission on Rationalizing Healthcare Resources, ordered by Gov. Jon Corzine in 2006, released its report in January. In evaluating the economic and service woes of the state’s hospitals, the report called for a solution featuring greater accountability and efficiency in the state’s hospitals, at the cost of many troubled facilities. Headed by Princeton [...]
This year, as JNESO celebrates its 50th anniversary, we’ll be highlighting important moments in our Union’s history. The ballots had gone out in the mail weeks before – 6,500 total. Of the 3,272 that were returned, eight were invalidated. A certified public accountant was hired to count the remaining votes, and an outside auditor verified [...]
Hi! We’re testing out the new JNESO site “live” — please feel free to send in any comments you might find. What’s different? Other than the loss of Santa (sniff), the programming is completely different. It looks similar, but we’re talking a whole new engine here. The goal is so that every local’s president, secretary [...]
