Nurses at Hackensack Meridian Health’s Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin and Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune feel as if they were slapped in the face on March 31. According to a Facebook post from a nurse, HMH sent an all-staff email to its hospital employees announcing a raise will be given to all staff on May 3 in a program called “harmonizing across the system.” But nurses at SOMC and JSUMC won’t be getting one.

“The nurses at Jersey Shore and Southern Ocean are being excluded, because we’re unionized.