Member Leadership Trainings
NYSNA's Member Leadership Training (MLT) is a four-part program is designed to provide you with practical information to enforce your contract, advance the interests of the healthcare profession and members, and ensure that nurses and other healthcare workers and patients are respected. The training covers a range of topics including organizing co-workers to resolve worksite issues, grievance handling, legal rights, recruiting co-workers to be involved in union activities, winning safe staffing enforcement, and more. The program is split into:
- MLT Part 1: The Responsibilities of Leaders to Advocate for Themselves and Their Patients.
- MLT Part 2: Using Representational Rights Under Law and the Contract to Improve Working Conditions.
- MLT Part 3: Organizing for Collective Advocacy to Build Unity and Engage the Healthcare Worker Community.
- MLT Part 4: Advocating for Healthcare Workers’ and Patients’ Needs Through Effective Campaigns and Contractual Committees.
Collectively, we can win improvements for our patients and for healthcare workers. We can win legislative victories for safe staffing, quality patient care, and health care for all. We can win better contracts with fair wages and health benefits, retirement with dignity, employment security, safe
staffing, and more. And we can be part of a vibrant labor movement that fights for working class power, at work and in society.
We look forward to working with you to build a stronger, democratic, member-driven union. With the strength of member power, we will be able to win at work and beyond, for our patients and for healthcare workers, today and tomorrow!
NYSNA is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation and the International Accreditors of Continuing Education and Training. Each part of the Leadership Training program has been awarded 3.0 CHs/0.3 CEUs. In order to receive CHs/CEUs, all participants are required to attend the entire program, complete all assignments, complete an evaluation and post-program test.