NYSNA Update: April 4, 2025
HANDS OFF Our Healthcare, Unions and Democracy! NYSNA Joins April 5 Day of Action
Our healthcare system and good union jobs are under attack by the Trump administration and billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts. Union nurses are fighting back.
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 5, NYSNA will join a nationwide day of action to send a clear message: HANDS OFF our healthcare, our unions and our democracy. We are coming together with millions of New Yorkers across the state to stop the widespread attacks on our rights.
Our healthcare system and jobs aren’t the only things under attack. Last Friday, Trump signed an executive order seeking to end federal employees’ collective bargaining rights, one of the largest attacks on labor unions in history, including 15,000 National Nurses United registered nurses with the Veterans Administration. And on April 1, in yet another assault on workers, the administration announced cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, including the termination of nearly 900 workers, essentially eliminating an agency that protects workers in healthcare and some of the most dangerous industries. Join us tomorrow in NYSNA red to defend our healthcare, unions, democracy, and the critical programs that keep New Yorkers healthy and safe.
CenterLight Nurses Deliver Strike Notice
Last week, a super majority of CenterLight nurses voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike. After CenterLight refused to return to the bargaining table, nurses delivered a strike notice to management on Thursday, April 3, to send a clear message that they are ready to do whatever it takes to win back their healthcare and bargain a fair contract.
CenterLight management illegally stripped nurses of their health benefits at the beginning of this year. Since then, nurses have been busy organizing by gathering community petition signatures, engaging elected officials to call out CenterLight’s unlawful behavior and speaking out in the press. But CenterLight management has continued to drag its feet on NYSNA members’ most important proposals, and CenterLight nurses have had enough. Striking is always a last resort, and nurses have made it clear they are prepared to bargain at any time to reach an agreement, but if management leaves them no other option, nurses will begin their unfair labor practice strike on Monday, April 14.
All 42,000 NYSNA members are in solidarity with CenterLight nurses!
Northwell Nurses Are in Solidarity With Northwell/Huntington Hospital Nurses
After Northwell/Huntington Hospital nurses learned that Huntington management is unwilling to negotiate a fair contract on-site at the hospital or at NYSNA offices, they started an email campaign to demand that Huntington Hospital leadership agree to meet in person at these locations and bargain a fair contract. The campaign has gained traction, and now NYSNA nurses from Northwell/South Shore University Hospital and Northwell/Staten Island University Hospital have joined in to flood Northwell leadership’s inboxes and call on management to listen to Huntington nurses.
NYSNA nurses are showing up for their fellow union members to remind Northwell that they are ready to hold management accountable until it agrees to bargain a fair contract for Huntington nurses and to show there is power in a union!