PASNAP is the fastest growing union for nurses and health professionals in Pennsylvania.  As members of a professional union, we have the right to sit at the table where decisions about our work are made.  Now, we have the power to define our work lives and improve patient care, both in the worksite and in the political arena.  We are PASNAP!  

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CMC Nurses Win Outstanding
First Contract!

May 1, 2008 -- The Registered Nurses of Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa, ratified their first union contract with PASNAP. The contract provides significant economic gains and improvements in working conditions.

“We’ve reached our goal of really improving our jobs to give the best patient care we can give the community,” said Donna Fryzel, R.N., a CMC post-anesthesia care unit nurse of 29 years.

Read More in the Scranton-Times Tribune

Healthcare for All
PASNAP supports winning healthcare for all. To read more about this solution to the serious problem of access to healthcare in the US, see an article written on the issue by PASNAP's President, Patricia Eakin, RN, or watch PASNAP nurses and others on Pennsylvania Senator Ferlo's Capitol Update Video on the healthcare system and single-payer.

Find out more about proposed federal legislation that would guarantee healthcare for all through a single payer system, HR 676. Visit Healthcare Now, the leading organization in the effort to win a not-for-profit healthcare system.

It's Time for U.S. to Revisit Universal Healthcare, by Susan Cornner, Los Angeles Times, 5/05/08

More Insurance Will Not Solve OurHealthcare Crisis, by Patricia Eakin, RN, and Deborah Burger, RN, Delaware County Daily Times, 3/18/08

PASNAP Affiliates with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee , 1/10/08