New York, NY – Healthcare executives across the state are once again proving the system is all about profit and not at all about people. As the Omicron variant packs
New York, NY – Hospitals didn’t listen to warnings from nurses and other healthcare workers at the start of the Covid pandemic and they aren’t listening to them now as
New York, NY – Thomas Carey is president of the Westchester-Putnam Central Labor Body, AFL-CIO, as well as business representative for United Association Local 21 Plumbers and Steamfitters HVACR. LaborPress
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Nurses at Staten Island University Hospital/Northwell charge that the chain that owns it is endangering patient care by refusing to replace more than 50 nurses who left or
New York, NY – The New York State Nurses Association [NYSNA] represents more than 42,000 nurses in New York State, and is New York’s largest union and professional association for
New York, NY – Marva Wade is a 75-year-old retired nurse, originally from Roanoke, Virginia, who spent nearly a half century on the job before retiring just a few years
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Will the COVID-19 pandemic be the impetus for New York State to enact a law to create a single-payer universal health-care system? The bill, the New York Health
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Pat Kane, executive director of the New York State Nurses Association [NYSNA], laughs when she’s asked if the bill intended to lessen understaffing at hospitals, recently passed by
ALBANY, N.Y.—After more than 20 years of pressure from health-care workers, the state Legislature on May 4 overwhelmingly passed a pair of bills intended to ensure adequate staffing in hospitals
ALBANY, N.Y.—Two bills intended to reduce understaffing in hospitals and nursing homes are nearing a vote in the state Legislature. One of the two measures in the Safe Staffing Act
