Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), based in Conshohocken and representing 325 nurses at Pottstown Hospial, confirmed that, after two years of negotiations, the union has ratified a three-year deal.
The contract, according to the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), includes average wage increases of 5 percent in the first year and 6 percent in the second and third years. The contract introduces a wage scale based on years of nursing, according to the union, writes John George in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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The nurses became part of PASNAP in September 2016, and this contract is their first since joining the union.
“I’m very happy to finally have a contract,” said Bernie Moser, a registered nurse who work in the maternity unit. “Nurses stood strong together.… We are proud in what we have been able to achieve in our first contract.”
Tower Health, in a statement said it “is pleased that contract negotiations ….have concluded successfully.”
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