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Professional organizations support NYSNA's fight against SEIU
Following recent attempts by 1199SEIU to raid NYSNA bargaining units, the Nurses Association has received an outpouring of support and encouragement.
Fellow state nurses associations, professional nursing organizations, and many other professional unions and organizations have sent letters to members of the Nurses Association.
Letters of Support
Copies of individual letters are posted below (all attachments are 
.pdf format; Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
- Organization of Staff Anaylsts
- Fire Alarm Dispatchers Benevolent Association
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
- Detectives Endowment Association, Inc.
- Uniformed Fire Officers Association
- American Nurses Association
- Oregon Nurses Assocation
- AFSCME 1199
- California Nurses Association
- Montana Nurses Association
- New York Professional Nurses Association
Additional Support
New Jersey State Nurses Association
The New Jersey State Nurses Association has been representing nurses since the 70's when the law was changed to permit hospital employees to strike. NYSNA is now our bargaining agent and is the only union in the metropolitan area that can deal with the complicated needs of the registered nurses--- including staffing issues that are patient centered. All other unions are at a loss to understand the practice concerns that a nurse faces every day.
SEIU will never have the expertise to understand and obtain reforms in health care that allow registered nurses to provide quality care to their patients.
SEIU will dummy down the needs of the RN and completely ignore the patient in the equation.
SEIU wants to be a mega union more than it wants to create a workplace for nurses to provide quality care.
Only NYSNA can be relied upon to bargain for nurses, patients and quality care.
NYSNA is the brain trust for the registered nurse in the union movement.
— Andrea Aughenbaugh, RN, Chief Executive Officer
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The New York State Nurses Association is the voice for nursing in the Empire State. With more than 36,000 members, it is the state's largest union and professional association for registered nurses. It supports nurses and nursing practice through education, research, legislative advocacy, and collective bargaining.