NY Nurse: February 2018

More than 200 NYSNA members carried out a spirited info picket at Staten Island University Hospital during the afternoon and early evening on February 28. The members are demanding safe staffing levels, a voice for all nurses on issues such as patient care and workplace safety, and retiree health...

On Saturday, February 24, NYSNA joined with thousands of other union members in New York City and tens of thousands across the nation — from Buffalo to Chicago, Ohio and California — in support of our rights to have strong and powerful unions in advance of the upcoming Supreme Court case Janus v...

In Las Vegas in October 2017, Stephen Paddock killed 58 concertgoers — the worst mass shooting in modern American history. On February 14, 2018, staccato fire echoed through the halls of a Florida school, as ex-student Nikolas Cruz opened fire, leaving 17 dead. Government-sanctioned availability of...

The shooting massacre of 17 people in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, sent yet another shockwave through the nation. Access to weapons, in particular assault rifles, has surpassed crisis levels, leaving communities submerged in confusion, doubt, shock, and fear...