My name is Tonia Bazel, RN, I work at Albany Medical Center’s Infectious Disease Unit and I introduced the single-payer resolution at the 2022 convention on behalf of the NYSNA single-payer committee.
Nurses at Gracie Square Hospital won a new contract this month with an overwhelming majority of nurses voting in favor of ratification. The new contract addresses two major issues for nurses—safe staffing and respectful wages.
On Thursday, Sept. 14, and in the lead up to Climate Week in New York City, NYSNA was proud to join with labor unions and advocacy groups in front of City Hall to introduce a bill to accelerate the building of solar power on public buildings and on public land.
On Wednesday, Sept. 13, NYSNA, NNU, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Corey Booker and striking nurses at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital (RWJH) in New Jersey came together for a town hall on safe staffing and the employer-created nursing crisis.
From Manhattan to Tappan, New York, NYSNA nurses showed up for workers on strike this week! On Wednesday, Sept. 27, nurses rallied in midtown Manhattan alongside SAG-AFTRA and United Autoworkers (UAW) members at a solidarity picket.