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Hundreds of NYSNA nurses from New York City Health + Hospitals (H+H)/ Mayorals packed the courtyard outside H+H headquarters on Wednesday, Jan. 18, demanding a fair contract and safe staffing to deliver the care all New Yorkers deserve. Nurses held “I am a Nurse” signs honoring Dr.

On Thursday, Dec. 22, NYSNA nurses announced the outcome of strike authorization votes at NYC private sector hospitals with union contracts expiring Dec. 31.

NYSNA members are always ready to fight for safe staffing! On November 30, nurses and allies rallied on the steps of City Hall and testified at a City Council oversight hearing on the state of nursing.

Since the primary season, NYSNA members have been mobilizing to elect leaders who will fight for nurses, healthcare professionals, our patients and working families in 2022 and beyond.

Our ability to strengthen our public health infrastructure, our social safety net, and take action to support frontline workers depends on electing candidates who support nurses, healthcare professionals, and our communities.

NYSNA and National Nurses United (NNU) announced on October 20 that the New York nurses have overwhelmingly voted to affiliate with NNU, the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States, to mutually grow and strengthen the power of nurses within the state a

Nurses know that ICU safe staffing can’t wait!

The NYS Department of Health (DOH) was supposed to enact an ICU safe staffing regulation back in January, 2022 as part of NYSNA’s safe staffing legislative victory in 2021, but they are still dragging their feet.