Brooklyn Hospital Center nurses have been organizing nonstop to restore their healthcare benefits.
Nurses have been speaking out, leafleting, & talking with elected officials including @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social & @cmrestler.bsky.social about what’s happening & why this fight matters. Go nurses!
The Brooklyn Hospital Center nurses have gone over a month without health benefits because the hospital refuses to pay what it owes. Meanwhile, hospital executives made over $8 million in 2024.
Tell TBHC leadership: Pay the nurses what you owe and restore their benefits now! bit.ly/tbhc-nurses
NYSNA nurses are heading back to Albany on Tuesday, Mar. 10.✊
Nurses will meet with elected officials to advocate for safe staffing, health equity, and policies that protect patients and frontline caregivers. Let's go make our voices heard loud and clear!
Happy Women's History Month! We're proud to recognize all the trailblazing accomplishments and incredible contributions of women in NYSNA, nursing, and in the greater labor movement.
NYSNA nurses and their families celebrated the Year of the Horse at the annual Lunar New Year Parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown! 🧧🐎🎉
We proudly shared our message that we are committed to caring for ALL communities.
NYSNA nurses were out wearing their lucky green today to celebrate at the Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade! NYSNA nurses were proud to spread the message that “Safe Staffing Brings Good Luck!” 🍀
Nurses celebrated our contract campaign and strike victory today with @mayor.nyc.gov! We’re thankful for Mayor Mamdani and proud to celebrate as we continue to advocate for quality care for all New Yorkers.
From the strike line to the bedside!
NYP nurses woke up early this morning to head back to their first day back at work. Grateful for the strength and solidarity that carried all 15,000 striking nurses through every cold day and every strike chant!
Hospitals flaunted the millions they spent on temporary travel nurses, rather than investing in safe patient care. Despite this, they achieved contracts that set industry standards and will improve care for New Yorkers.
Read the press release at www.nysna.org/press
Nurses fought to protect and improve care for New Yorkers. They faced some of the wealthiest, largest private employers in the city and fought against unseen levels of union-busting, public denigration, and delay tactics.
After 41 days, this vote ends the historic strike, which began as the largest nurse strike in New York City history when 15k NYSNA nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian began picketing.
Congratulations, NewYork-Presbyterian nurses! They overwhelmingly ratified a new contract and will return to work next week!
BREAKING: Approximately 4,200 NYSNA nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian reached a tentative agreement late last night to end the historic 6-week strike. Nurses bargained all day and made their voices heard. Congratulations, NewYork-Presbyterian nurses!
For 19 days, nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center have shown up to work without health insurance because the hospital has failed to pay nurses' benefits since Oct! Nurses spoke out today and demanded management immediately pay and fully restore their benefits!
Ramadan Mubarak to all our Muslim sisters and brothers celebrating! May the holy month of Ramadan be filled with blessings and peace.
We will honor Rev. Jackson's legacy by continuing his work building a more equitable future for coming generations. Rest in Power." –NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, BSN,CCRN
"Together with our community, NYSNA mourns the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson, a fearless civil rights leader who understood that seeking justice requires the strength of the working class, a multiracial coalition, and unwavering dedication to the dignity of all people.
Return to work celebrations continued at Mount Sinai Morningside and West as nurses headed back to work early this morning!
This is the third finding of make whole relief for NYP nurses. Management has attempted to appeal these awards, but nurses are keeping up the fight to ensure NYP takes real accountability.
www.nysna.org/press/newyor...
These nurses who care for some of the sickest children in the state tracked chronic understaffing for over a year.
The fight continues at NewYork-Presbyterian but nurses are celebrating an arbitration win! Yesterday, an arbitrator just ordered NYP to pay nearly $400K to nurses in the pediatric cardiac ICU at CHONY after finding the hospital violated safe staffing rules 614 times.
Happy Lunar New Year! NYSNA wishes all who celebrate a happy and healthy year of the horse!
Congratulations to nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West, who all ratified their strong union contracts by an overwhelming majority!
Read more at
On Feb. 25, New Yorkers will descend on Albany to demand lawmakers tax the rich to fund the affordability agenda New Yorkers deserve.
From marching through the streets to lobbying elected officials, New Yorkers will demand for a more affordable NY. RSVP https://bit.ly/4byocVH
More details on the tentative agreements will follow ratification. When we fight, we win! ✊
BREAKING: ~10,500 NYSNA nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai, & Mount Sinai Morningside/West reached tentative agreements late Sun/early Mon.
Nurses won: enforceable safe staffing, maintain their health benefits, workplace violence protections, and more!
www.nysna.org/press/victor...
LOVE this OpEd from our allies at @alignny.bsky.social!
"Terrific" or terrible? Can we trust NewYork-Presbyterian's billionaire board members like "private equity king" and Jeffrey Epstein associate Stephen Schwartzman to protect healthcare for New Yorkers?
Nurses took direct action outside the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes to stand up to corporate greed and demand management negotiate fair contracts! Shoutout to these 13 incredible nurses! They've all been released and ready to fight another day! ✊
NYC nurses like Sheryl Ostroff, RN, are fearless, brave, and taking a stand for safety. They want to keep caring for NY but need CEOs to invest in workplace violence protections and negotiate fair contracts. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/nurse-strike-new-york-workplace-violence.html
