Unionized Hospital in Pennsylvania

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I want to know if anyone knows about what hospitals are unionized in Pennsylvania, mainly around Hershey and Allentown region? Thank you in advance!

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Easton Hospital was unionized under United Independent Union Local 2. Otherwise, unaware of any unions in Allentown area. Penn State Hersey Medical Center is represented by SEIU-- see article re 2018 contract.

Check the websites of these PA nursing unions to see if in these communities:

Nurse Alliance | SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP)

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Pottstown was unionized last I heard although since they were bought by Reading/Tower Health (which is incredibly antiunion) I’m sure there’s been a ton of pressure there. Same with St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Temple Hospital is also unionized.

Lehigh Valley isn’t unless that has changed recently and they have super low wages, low shift diff, and their self insurance plan was pretty limited.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Pottstown was unionized under PASNAP in 2016, still awaiting contract with new owner Tower Health per PASNAP website.

Here's current list of PASNAP unionized facilities: https://www.pasnap.com/ 

look under local pages for list.

 

 

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Oh gosh they still have no contract? It’s been at about 2 years since Tower Health bought them, hasn’t it? Bummer ? When I worked at Tower the union busting against Pottstown was so bad they were sending out anti union prop to the entire hospital system. I had looked in to unionizing there but everyone involved in the previous campaign had been really scared off by admin’s tactics.

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