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Public sector nurses unite statewide In September, 200 of NYSNA’s public sector nurses from every part of the state came together for our first-ever conference dedicated specifically to sharing our experiences and strategizing our next steps in fighting …

Environment and Health Professor Wade Hill is an RN with a Ph.D. in Public Health. He teaches and researches at the College of Nursing at Montana State University. His specialties include the health effects of climate change and the leading role nurses …

Anti-union politicians and business interests are out to destroy our public hospitals. And they’ve got a strategy: 1. PRIVATIZE. Hospital executives in Massena, near the Canadian border, are trying to fully privatize the town hospital. In the 1990s, Rudy …

By Julie Semente, RN, Secretary, LICH Executive Committee Last January, we opened the morning newspaper and found out that SUNY planned to close LICH, the hospital where I’ve helped save lives for 30 years. I immediately knew the effort that would have to …

The story of how we kept LICH and Interfaith open is a story of dedication, commitment — and how changing our union has given us the power to stop hospital closures. Since 2000, 28 hospitals have closed across our state. As the new NYSNA, we’ve vowed to …

I’m writing this shortly before the NYSNA convention, which will conclude with our newly elected board taking office. We’ve had a remarkable year. Literally thousands of NYSNA members stepped up and got involved in the fight for safe staffing and quality …

There’s no time to hang back and rest on our recent progress. We stopped the full-on assault on healthcare in 2013. But we have not won — yet. This year we’re upping our ante in every fight and pushing even harder to bring home a safe staffing law and …

By Jill Furillo, RN, NYSNA Executive Director When you look beyond the homeless, among them 20,000 children in New York City alone, beyond the hardship of elderly women from whom $75 in monthly food stamps – a week’s groceries – was “sequestered” away …

NYSNA Endorsed Candidates New York City | City Council Districts | Erie County | Nassau County | Onondaga County | Schenectady County | Suffolk County Ulster County | Westchester County The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is the best …

Billionaire energy magnate David H. Koch takes his healthcare very seriously. He’s located his residence on New York City’s Upper East Side, a community with resplendent healthcare resources. The city’s wealthiest hospitals and clinics lie within blocks …