It is time to begin preparation for our upcoming negotiations, so pre-negotiation questionnaires have been mailed out to all members. In order for your negotiating team to form a comprehensive plan of action, they need your assistance in determining priorities and the number of members interested in those priorities. Please realize that we are attempting [...]
Have you ever wanted to know more about …. What is a Grievance? How you File a Grievance Grievance Investigations How to make your contract work for you? SAVE THE DATE! JNESO Leadership Development Seminar and Training OCTOBER 27, 2010 Contact Your Labor Representatives Diane Grady or Meredith Larson for additional information 732-745-2776 Our Goal is to [...]
On Monday, Feb. 22, the New Jersey Senate passed several bills addressing the nearly $35 billion hole in the state pension. With benefit cuts, exclusion of part-time workers from the pension and an increase in health care costs for teachers, once again New Jersey’s public employees are being asked to shoulder the burden of a [...]
7AM-8AM in the Essex County Hospital Center Large Classroom 2PM-4PM at the Grasshopper Bar and Grill 292 Grove Avenue, Cedar Grove Local Leaders and JNESO Representatives will be on hand to answer all questions
The local has been working hard to hold management accountable to health and safety concerns, some of which were brought up over a year ago. The union has had a series of meeting with management asking for regular updates on these issues. Management has been also been engaging in regular Labor/Management meetings in an ongoing [...]
The membership has been very energized over safe staffing issues, and is requesting a meeting with management to propose solutions to this on-going challenge. Members have been signing a “safe staffing” petition and wearing safe staffing pins to show their support for the campaign.
We are finalizing several issues with the County with very favorable outcomes: An $11,000 settlement followed the improper removal of a member from work. The instructor of training and development title will be reinstated and the County is allowed to train the trainer instruction by paying a differential to existing bargaining unit members. We will [...]
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 [...]
