Two New York City hospitals have reached a tentative contract agreement with thousands of striking nurses, ending a walkout that disrupted patient care. The deal will see nurses return to work.
Mount Sinai Hospital saw nurses leave their night shifts at 6 a.m. on Jan. 9 and head out to the sidewalk with picket signs—some 3,625 Mount Sinai nurses are part of the strike. At Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, 3,500 nurses are part of the walkout.
“Despite Montefiore’s offer of a 19.1% compounded wage increase––the same offer agreed to at the wealthiest of our peer institutions––and a commitment to create over 170 new nursing positions, and despite a call from Gov. Hochul for arbitration, NYSNA’s leadership has decided to walk away from the bedsides of their patients,” the Montefiore Medical Center said in a statement sent at 3:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 9. “Therefore, at 6 a.m., NYSNA nurses will be on strike and off the job.
The union had initially been in contract talks with New York-Presbyterian, Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Maimonides, BronxCare, Richmond University Medical Center, and Flushing Hospital Medical Center. NYSNA reached a tentative agreement with Mount Sinai Morningside and West on the afternoon of Jan. 8. New contracts were ratified by nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital Center-Maimonides and NewYork-Presbyterian on Jan.
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Jr. attended the press conference and rallied strikers with chants that promoted support for NYSNA’s efforts. “Shame on you, Mount Sinai! Shame, shame, shame on you!” he said to the crowd. “To have these nurses out here, who shed blood and tears to get us through this pandemic. To have these nurses out here––shame on you! “There’s been a lot of conversations about going back to normal in our city,” he added. “Well, normal never worked in this city.
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