NYSNA Update: September 12, 2025
NYSNA Nurses March in NYC CLC’s Labor Day Parade
On Saturday, Sept. 6, NYSNA members joined hundreds of New York City labor unions representing millions of working New Yorkers at the New York City Central Labor Council’s Labor Day Parade, the nation’s oldest and largest celebration of working people. Co-Grand Marshals Rich Maroko, president of the Hotel & Gaming Trades Council, and Terri Carmichael Jackson, executive director of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association, led this year’s parade, marching under the banner “Power in Unity.”
Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and other notable elected officials marched alongside NYSNA members in a celebration of the people who built New York City and continue to keep it running every day. NYSNA members were also proud to march alongside Veteran Affairs nurses from National Nurses United whose union contract was terminated by President Trump’s executive order. The parade honors the generations of working people who came before us and calls on union members to recommit to the values that have always guided the labor movement: solidarity and dignity for all who work. At a time when union rights and healthcare are under attack, NYSNA members were fired up to continue our fight for patients and working people!
NYSNA Nurses at St. Anthony Community Hospital Reach Tentative Agreement
After months of organizing for a fair contract, St. Anthony Community Hospital nurses reached a tentative agreement with management on Tuesday, Sept. 9. The negotiating committee secured significant wage increases, improvements to their staffing language, increases in differentials and more. Nurses will vote to ratify the contract next week. NYSNA members built support for the contract fight by organizing members to sign a petition in support of their bargaining platform. Nurses then delivered the petition, which a super majority of members signed, during a march on the boss on July 24, successfully pressuring management to come to the table and negotiate a contract that achieved the nurses’ central demands of safe staffing and respectful wages. Way to go, St. Anthony nurses!
Private Sector Facilities Kick Off Bargaining, Launch Ads in New York City
NYSNA members from private sector facilities have launched their platform petitions and kicked off their bargaining campaign across New York City. Some facilities, such as NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) and BronxCare, have had their first bargaining meetings to set ground rules. While NYP nurses have successfully pressured the boss to meet weekly, they’re still fighting to secure in-person meetings at the hospital so that nurses can organize a high turnout. At Mount Sinai, bosses are refusing to bargain at the hospital and are instead offering their inaccessible Midtown offices. Mount Sinai nurses are committed to pushing for open bargaining, where they work to ensure nurses can participate in the process. Nurses from other facilities — such as Maimonides, Richmond University Medical Center, One-Brooklyn Health, The Brooklyn Hospital, Wykoff Medical Center and Flushing Hospital — are also in full campaign mode and are gearing up to organize marches to deliver petitions to the boss to send a clear message that they will not settle for less than a contract that expands enforceable safe staffing, defends access to care, protects nurses, ensures every patient gets a real nurse, and wins fair wages and benefits to recruit and retain nurses.
While bosses may refuse to meet some nurses in person, nurses are making themselves impossible to ignore. Their ad campaign is live throughout the city at subway stations, on billboards, on the Staten Island Ferry, and even in digital ads on Facebook and YouTube. Nurses are asking the public to check out the campaign website and sign the pledge to support their campaign.