Hundreds of members from every region of our union convened the NYSNA Voting Body on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the end of the NYSNA Biennial Conference.

Voting Body is our union’s highest decision-making body. This year, we re-arranged the agenda to give more time to put forward and debate resolutions – and members submitted two dozen proposals.

We voted to pass resolutions on the following subjects:

• Our commitment to defend and expand our public sector hospitals.
• Our work to fight the corporatization of healthcare in Queens and Brooklyn.
• Supporting a universal single-payer healthcare system in New York State and beyond.
• Standing in solidarity with Long Island nurses at St. Charles and St. Catherine of Siena who have voted to authorize a strike.
• Supporting and expanding mental health services in Staten Island.
• Launching a comprehensive contract strategy process to prepare for the next round of bargaining.
• A private-sector member strike savings plan.
• Addressing the opioid epidemic.
• Organizing to build nurse power in upstate hospitals.
• Fighting for safe staffing ratios in our contracts.
• Expanding our work to train member-leaders.
• Two resolutions on making the fight for retiree health benefits a priority for our union and our union benefit fund trustees.
• Fighting the erosion of RN leadership roles from our union in our H+H bargaining units.
• Mobilizing for a rally for a fair contract at Westchester Medical Center.

The Board of Directors will be reviewing all the resolutions that we did not have time to discuss at our next board meeting.