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and formed a union to have a seat at the table to try to improve working conditions at Temple North and increase CRNA retention. It’s been a long road, and we did the hard thing, standing up for ourselves and our profession, but it was the right thing—not just for ourselves but for our patients as well.”

The Temple North Anesthesia Coalition (T-NAC) CRNAs are the newest PASNAP members at Temple University Hospital’s “North” campus. They join the 360-plus nurses at Jeanes and the 2,250 nurses and allied professionals at Temple Main who are also represented by PASNAP.

Wills Eye Nurses & Techs United Contract expired January 31, 2023

Wills Eye Nurses & Techs United—103 members strong—began negotiating on December 1st. At the core of their negotiations are quality of care issues like unsafe staffing (staffing levels are inconsistent during the day but always inadequate at night), workplace violence prevention (low staffing numbers contribute to members feeling unprotected by administration), resources for caregivers (members lost a year of their contractually guaranteed defined retirement contribution of 2.25% during the pandemic, and management has refused to pay back contributions or to increase the defined contribution), and poor retention (retention is low due to all of the above as well as low wages for experienced caregivers).