NYSNA Update: May 22, 2026
NYSNA Members at UVM-CVPH Hold Informational Picket to Demand a Fair Contract
Yesterday, hundreds of NYSNA members at the University of Vermont-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) held an informational picket to demand safe staffing and a fair contract! For months, CVPH healthcare workers have been bargaining for a fair contract that ensures quality patient care for North Country residents. Hospital administrators have recently made staffing standards less safe and are looking to cut healthcare workers’ health benefits. NYSNA nurses and healthcare professionals are demanding the hospital include enforceable safe staffing standards in the contract to protect safe, quality patient care. The informational picket received coverage in the Press Republican, WAMC, and ABC22/FOX44.
NYSNA members will not accept a contract that prioritizes profits over patients, so they took to the streets to make their demands heard. Labor and elected allies joined NYSNA members, including leaders from the Northeast Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the Plattsburgh City Council and the Plattsburgh Town Council. Check out photos and videos of the picket on our Facebook page. Keep up the great work, CVPH healthcare workers!
Montefiore Nurses Demand Respect During Nurses Week
There’s no better time than Nurses Week to take action and call for the respect that nurses deserve — that’s why Montefiore nurses stickered up this week to demand “Respect, Not Retaliation.” In tandem with their sticker action, Monte nurses also signed petitions pressing management to remove a nursing director — who was openly disrespectful to NYSNA nurses during our historic New York City nurse strike — from union meetings. In addition to their demands for respect, nurses are also pushing to extend overtime pay to nurse practitioners (NPs) throughout the Montefiore Bronx Health System, a fight carried over from the bargaining table back into the facility. NPs are the last group at Monte who don’t earn time and a half for working past their shift hours. Management agreed to continue talks on NP overtime pay during the strike resolution, so nurses are taking action to show how strongly NYSNA members feel about fixing this injustice!
BronxCare Nurses Hunt for Missing PTO
At the BronxCare Nurses Week celebration, NYSNA members broke out magnifying glasses: Nurses are on the hunt for missing paid time off (PTO). During recent contract negotiations, management agreed to establish a special bank for additional paid time off, but nurses have yet to see management implement this benefit. In response, hundreds of nurses signed petitions to demand that management honor its previous commitment and give nurses the PTO they’ve earned. Keep up the pressure, BronxCare nurses, and hold management to its word!