NY Nurse June 2016

NYSNA Pride

NYSNA’s float and a contingent of 50 members participated in New York City’s Gay Pride Parade on June 26. This was the first time that the union officially took part in the parade. NYSNA members were among the 30,000 who marched down Fifth Avenue into Greenwich Village. Earlier in the...

Southside Hospital’s NYSNA nurses united to raise the alarm about patient safety beginning last fall when word spread that the Brain Injury Unit’s already thin staff would be cut further.

Since then, members have come together to speak with a united voice for our patients in meetings with management...

NYSNA members from three Catholic Health Services of Long Island hospitals (CHS) came together on June 8 outside the headquarters of the Diocese of Rockville Center to raise awareness of the staffing crisis inside their hospitals. St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center, St. Charles Hospital and St...

Corporatization and cuts to healthcare funding impact all of our patients, so members from both public and private facilities came together for NYSNA’s third annual public sector conference on June 23. NYSNA First Vice President Marva Wade, RN, welcomed hundreds of members who gathered in New York...

The ongoing campaign for safe staffing at Vassar Brothers Medical Center has built unprecedented unity between NYSNA RNs and 1199SEIU UHWE caregivers, and mobilized union, community, and political supporters into an unstoppable force for quality patient care. At a June 15 informational picket and...

More than one hundred NYSNA members from Westchester Medical Center greeted the hospital’s board of directors as it arrived for a June 1 meeting, staging a “silent gathering” complete with signs and a giant petition signed by more than 800 nurses. The petition urged the hospital to respect nurses...

The 2015-2016 legislative session ended with a huge victory for New York’s safety-net hospitals — and the millions of patients who depend on them for care. An Enhanced Safety Net Hospital bill (A9476A/S6948-A) passed both legislative chambers with unanimous votes! It now awaits Governor Cuomo’s...

New Yorkers won a victory for climate justice on June 1, 2016 when the Assembly passed the New York State Climate and Community Protection Act (A.10342). Earlier that day, nurses rallied with our partners from NY Renews, a climate justice coalition that NYSNA members helped to form back in December...

It is with heavy hearts that we march in this year’s Gay Pride Parade. 49 women and men were murdered by a madman in Orlando in the largest mass shooting in modern American history. Whether the assailant was a supporter of ISIS or another young man with a dangerous, untreated mental illness who...

NYSNA nurses at St. Elizabeth in Utica increased pressure on management after administrators attempted to back out of a negotiating session attended by 50 members of the bargaining unit.

RNs mobilized in all units and looked forward to attending the May 31 bargaining session. “This was the first...

NYSNA nurses held a tribute to the victims of the devastating Orlando shooting at our June 23 Patient Advocacy Conference and pledged to fight against hatred and gun violence. Marva Wade, RN and NYSNA First Vice President, opened the program with a call for unity against hate and violence and then...

Sometimes we lose hope. Chronically working short-staffed, lacking critical resources, bringing these issues forward to management’s unresponsive ears — we could resign ourselves to thinking that this is just the way it is. But without hope, without the belief that things can get better, what are we...