in our Spotlight on Business Report tonight labor disputes are flaring up again at Clara Maass hospital in Belleville hundreds of Union nurses picketed outside the medical center today in protest of their employer RWJ Barnabas which is also an underwriter of NJ Spotlight news criticizing what they call bad faith bargaining and disparate treatment by the hospital system unionized nurses say the hospital's management hasn't engaged in collective bargaining since the workers voted to organize with 11 99 SEIU two years ago filing an unfair Labor practice charge against the hospital claiming RWJ agreed to different contracts at its hospitals in more affluent communities with guidelines outlining higher Staffing levels and guaranteed paid time off for nurses there but in a statement today a spokesperson for Clara Moss disputed those claims and said the hospital has consistently put forward proposals blaming the union s CIU for delaying progress and causing its members to miss out on thousands of dollars in Pay management is trying to get their way without properly negotiating with us it's my way or the highway um we're we want to be properly staffed uh they did give us a little bit of compensation we did get a raise that's about the only thing that we've gotten so far with them uh but we want to be properly staffed do we want our nurses stop being uh flexed or call you know can and everybody tripled in the ICU it's not safe and all it does is put dollars in their pockets while our patients are you know not getting the proper attention they deserve [Music]