New Jersey/ D.C.

UMDNJ Residents Win Meal Grievance

UMDNJ-SOM Emergency Medicine residents won’t go hungry in the night, thanks to a huge victory CIR recently won in arbitration against UMDNJ.

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UMDNJ Residents Help Push Back Health Premium Increase

In June 2007, the administration of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) made a sudden announcement: all employees, including the 1,100 CIR members who work in UMDNJ’s hospitals across the state, would now have 1.5% of their earnings deducted from each paycheck as a health insurance premium. CIR members united with coworkers to achieve major workplace victory.

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Family Medicine Program to Continue at Robert Wood Johnson

For CIR residents at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s Department of Family Medicine in New Brunswick, NJ, it took a lot of hard work to buck the trend towards specialization, and keep their program open.

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