{"id":379650,"date":"2026-10-22T12:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379650\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:58:33","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nurses-call-for-reinstatement-of-union-official-who-was-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379650\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nurses Call For Reinstatement Of Union Official Who Was Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York State Nurses Association is calling for the reinstatement of a local union vice president who was allegedly suspended without pay after raising safety concerns at NYC Health + Hospitals\/Kings County in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The nonprofit says the suspension occurred on Oct. 9 because she advocated for patient safety and discussed longstanding staffing worries raised by bedside nurses.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The official was also barred from all NYC H+H facilities despite no specific charges being filed against her, according to NYSNA.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Union members say a petition demanding her reinstatement and back pay has received nearly 1,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYSNA members, hospital staff, elected officials and other labor allies plan to hold an emergency rally and press conference from 12 to 2 p.m. at 451 Clarkson Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYSNA says they expect dozens of attendees to speak out in support of the official when it begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Nurses Association is calling for the reinstatement of a local union vice president who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-379650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}