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During Tuesday’s Primary Election, RNs hit the streets to campaign for the state legislative candidates who can best represent frontline nurses and our patients. Our hard work proved successful – when the ballots were counted, the majority of candidates that we endorsed were elected.

NYSNA nurses are joining up with other union caregivers and lawmakers for a Healthy Bronx.

More than 140 NYSNA nurses and supporters marched with homemade signs in front of Gloversville's Nathan Littauer Hospital this week. Our message: management needs to work with us to make sure our hospital is the best place to work and receive care.

Tens of thousands of people are planning to join the People’s Climate March in Manhattan on Sunday, September 21. NYSNA will be there.

UPDATE: At 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, we ended our 24-hour strike at Terence Cardinal Cooke against unfair labor practices and for Safe Staffing.

Ninety nurses are on strike for safe staffing and against illegal employer practices at East Harlem's Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center.
 

On some nights, Peng He, an RN at Terence Cardinal Cooke Hospital, says only one RN is left to care for patients on the subacute unit. "How can one person cover dozens of bedside calls at once? Every night I worry about my patients."