New Jersey’s Professional Health Care Union
HPAE is the largest union of nurses and health care professionals in New Jersey. With more than 12,000 members, we are also the fastest growing health care union in the state, as our membership has more than tripled in size since 1981.
Across NJ and southeastern Pennsylvania HPAE members include nurses, social workers, therapists, technicians, medical researchers and other healthcare professionals at hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies, blood banks and university research facilities.
HPAE is involved in a labor dispute with American Addiction Centers, Inc. (“AAC”). AAC is a national, publically-traded for-profit corporation which owns inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment centers for individuals with drug and alcohol addiction. AAC is under investigation for violations of the National Labor Relations Act.