New York State Nurses Association Labor Bargaining Unit President, Mount Sinai, Robin Krinsky, speaks during a rally by NYSNA nurses from NY Presbyterian and Mount Sinai. Nurses were demanding that Albany lawmakers pass Safe Staffing on what is the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown in NYC.
For years, nurses in New Jersey have raised concerns about workforce shortages and staffing levels they believe put patients and employees in danger. The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated this situation and, according to New Jersey nurses unions, the state’s continued suspension of staffing regulations is further adding to the strain.
While COVID-19-related hospitalizations continue in New Jersey at a steady rate, the numbers are just a fraction of what health care providers battled during peak points in the pandemic. But nurses’ unions said their members are still enduring stressful conditions, traumatized by what they have experienced, exhausted by working long hours caring for
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NORTH BRUNSWICK – Today, JNESO District Council 1 formally announced their endorsement of Governor Phil Murphy for re-election during a virtual membership meeting. JNESO – a healthcare labor union representing more than 5,000 nurses and other healthcare workers – emphasized the Governor’s leadership throughout the pandemic as a driving reason for the endorsement.
“Today we’ve come together to announce our endorsement for Governor Murphy’s re-election,” said Elfrieda Johnson, JNESO Board President. “It’s a little more than fifteen months since New Jersey reported its first case of COVID-19, and in that time our members have faced life and death circumstances as we collectively navigated a once in a lifetime public health crisis. It is because of Governor’s Murphy committed leadership that we had the resources, information, and support to fight on the front lines of this.”