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CEOs Get Paid While Patients Suffer: Our Current System is Broken

March 06, 2024

According to local reports, five CEOs of local hospitals in Western New York earn salaries collectively totaling over $6 million in compensation and benefits annually. Five executives of local health insurance companies in Western New York earn similar compensation packages totaling more than $5 million annually. Executives who lead some of the largest healthcare and health insurance organizations are amassing great personal wealth while everyday New Yorkers are facing life and death medical decisions.

Advocates hold #Coverage4All signs

NYSNA Attends Coverage 4 All Press Conference to Advocate for Expanded Healthcare Coverage

January 26, 2024

NYSNA Director at Large Michelle Jones, NP, joined Make the Road New York and other community allies in the Coverage 4 All Campaign relaunch in Queens on Thursday, Jan. 25. Championed by Senator...

RWJH USW Nurse Leaders Join NYSNA at Convention 2023

RWJH Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement Ending 123-day Strike!

December 08, 2023

After 123 days on the picket line, Robert Wood Johnson Hospital (RWJH) nurses have reached a tentative agreement! Nurses went on strike for enforceable staffing ratios in the hospital, and while...

Montefiore Bronx Nurses gather outside the CEO's office with a poster board of signature

Victory! Montefiore Nurses Save Nurse-Family Partnership!

December 01, 2023

The life-saving Nurse-Family Partnership program at Montefiore has served hundreds of Bronx families each year with amazing results. There is no place where the NFP is more needed than the Bronx where...

NYSNA Board of Directors Endorses Statement on the Crisis in the Middle East

November 22, 2023

The NYSNA Board endorses the following statement from our fellow affiliate union and has made a donation to Doctors Without Borders/ Medicines Sans Frontieres to support the humanitarian efforts.

Nurses at Mt. Sinai lead historic strike for a fair contract, January 2023

Staffing Victory: NYSNA Pressures DOH to Enforce Staffing Law

November 02, 2023

Ever since the hospital staffing committee law was passed in 2021, NYSNA members have pushed for the highest patient safety standards and for strong enforcement of the law. And despite setbacks, our...

Nancy Hagans Gives Powerful Testimony at Congressional Hearing Held by Sen. Bernie Sanders

November 02, 2023

On October 27 nurses from NYSNA, National Nurses United (NNU), the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), 1199SEIU, and Health Professional and Allied Employees (HPAE) gathered in New Jersey...

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Report: The State of Safe Staffing

Report: The State of Safe Staffing

Elmhurst nurses hold a petition board demanding pay parity for NYC Health and Hospitals nurses

Elmhurst nurses hold a petition board demanding pay parity for NYC Health and Hospitals nurses

Lincoln Hospital nurses in scrubs smiling with peace hand signs

Lincoln Hospital nurses in scrubs smiling with peace hand signs

Albany Medical Center Nurses at the 2023 NYSNA Convention

Albany Medical Center Nurses at the 2023 NYSNA Convention

Northwell LIJ Valley Stream Nurses Rally for Safe Staffing

Long Island Jewish Valley Stream/Northwell Nurses Rally for Safe Staffing, August 2020

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