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Why Nurses Should Oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership

May 14, 2015

h/t ExposeTheTPP.org

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the latest free trade agreement being negotiated by the United States, and it will be the largest — involving 11 countries and about 40% of...

Major Movement for Universal Healthcare in NYS!

May 05, 2015

In an exciting development for supporters of universal healthcare, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s announcement of support for a floor vote on New York Health (A.5062/S.3525), a bill for universal...

Nursing profiled in-depth as subject of a newly published book

May 05, 2015

Nursing was the subject of a lengthy and engaging segment on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on April 30. With his guest, author Alexandra Robbins, Lehrer discussed safe staffing ratios, workplace...

Donations and assistance sought for Nepal earthquake victims

April 27, 2015

With more than 8 million people displaced, and a death toll now exceeding 6,000, conditions in Nepal in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake continue to deteriorate. NYSNA urges members to...

Nepalese nurses set up emergency aid fund

April 25, 2015

Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the people killed in Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal.

The Nepalese American Nurses Association (NANA) has established an emergency aid fund. Many...

More than 1,000 RNs Lobby Albany for Safe Staffing and Single Payer universal healthcare

April 22, 2015

NYSNA members from across the state, joined by nursing students, converged on Albany Tuesday for the union’s annual Lobby Day, taking the occasion to continue our call for safe staffing ratios in...

Thousands picket in NYC

April 16, 2015

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...