NYSNA Update: November 7, 2025
NYSNA-Endorsed Champions Win Across the State
Across the state, NYSNA-endorsed pro-labor candidates won big. NYSNA and our labor allies showed that we are united at the ballot box for local change. In New York City, labor showed up strong and helped elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani as mayor. His historic campaign hit record numbers in voter engagement and turnout, centering the affordability crisis and the needs of real New Yorkers. In New York City, we also helped elect Shirley Aldebol and Kayla Santosuosso for City Council. On Long Island, we helped elect Rebecca Sanin and Cynthia Nunez for County Legislature, and upstate we helped elect Dorcey Applyrs for Albany mayor, Sean Ryan for Buffalo mayor and Michael Cashman for Assembly in the North Country. We also helped elect Jenn Puja for Westchester County and Yvette Valdes Smith for Hudson Valley County Legislature. These are just some of the few critical wins that will help nurses fight for patients and our communities!
Through NYSNA’s get out the vote work, we knocked on nearly 20,000 doors and made 50,000 live phone calls to labor households around the state, encouraging union members to vote in local elections. NYSNA members and staff had thousands of conversations with other union members and their families about the importance of voting and supporting pro-worker candidates. Your hard work paid off to help elect pro-worker candidates throughout the state. Our work is not over. Let’s continue to organize and build political power for nurses and all working people throughout New York!
RSVP: Private Sector November Week of Action
Next week, NYSNA nurses at private sector hospitals are kicking off another strong week of action. Mount Sinai Morningside/West, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Maimonides, Mount Sinai Hospital and Wyckoff Heights Medical Center nurses are all gathering across the city alongside elected officials and community allies to demand hospitals do their part to protect healthcare! They’re demanding fair contracts that respect patients, nurses and our communities. To show your support, join us at one of the actions and RSVP here!
- Nov. 12, Mount Sinai West at 11:30 a.m., 1000 10th Ave., New York
- Nov. 12, The Brooklyn Hospital Center at 11:30 a.m., 121 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn
- Nov. 13, Mount Sinai Main at 11:30 a.m., 1425 Madison Ave., New York
- Nov. 13, Maimonides Medical Center at 11:30 a.m., 4802 10th Ave., Brooklyn
- Nov. 14, Wyckoff at 11:30 a.m., 374 Stockholm St., Brooklyn
Albany Med Nurses Win Grievance in Pediatric Emergency Department!
This week, NYSNA nurses at Albany Medical Center continued their string of victories in 2025 by winning a grievance in the pediatric emergency department (ED)! At Albany Med, the pediatric ED is a standalone unit, which means nurses within the unit are not required to float to other units in the hospital, according to their contract. Despite this, management has been making them float to the adult ED. After ratifying a historic new contract earlier this year, nurses raised this issue with management, who told them to keep floating when instructed to.
After attempting to escalate the grievance and being ignored for months, nurses brought it to the human resources department with the support of their NYSNA union representative. Finally, Albany Med was forced to admit that it had been violating the contract by forcing nurses to float and needed to change its practices to adhere to the contract.
Congratulations, Albany Med nurses! This year, you fought for and won the strong union contract that capital region nurses and patients deserve, and now you’re taking charge, flexing your union power and enforcing that contract when it matters the most. You continue to show that when nurses fight, we win!