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Thousands of Registered Nurses in Info Picketing at Hospitals Across NYC; Citing Staffing Crisis, Not Enough RNs and Caregivers To Do the Job For Safe Patient Care

April 16, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 16, 2015 (NEW YORK CITY) — After months of negotiations, thousands of NYC’s registered nurses from 14 citywide hospitals took their fight for patient care and safe staffing levels to the community on Thursday with a day-long citywide informational picket. Thousands of

Commitment to Stand Strong for Staffing and Improved Conditions for Nurses and Patients Dominates Capital Region Inter-Regional Meeting

March 16, 2015

Staffing, and a commitment to a statewide strategy to improve patient care, dominated the March 12 Capital Region Inter-regional Meeting in Glenville. Nurses from across the Capital Region gathered to...

NYSNA Welcomes the Year of the Ram!

February 23, 2015

NYSNA members welcomed the Lunar New Year by marching in one of the city’s most festive and colorful parades. The parade, which winds down the streets of Manhattan’s Chinatown, draws hundreds of...

Public Hospital Dialysis Patients Win an Important Vote Against For-Profits and Privatization

February 01, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 1, 2015 (NEW YORK, NY) — The Committee on Establishment and Project Review failed today to win enough votes to recommend the application of Big Apple Dialysis Management, LLC to proceed in its takeover of four chronic dialysis clinics in the public hospital system run