{"id":241942,"date":"2026-01-16T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/241942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:34:07","slug":"nurses-restart-contract-talks-with-another-major-hospital-system-on-5th-day-of-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/241942\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses restart contract talks with another major hospital system on 5th day of strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — New York City nurses on strike<\/a> say they\u2019ve restarted contract talks with another one of the major hospital systems affected by the walkout that\u2019s now in its fifth day. <\/p>\n

The New York State Nurses Association said Friday that its bargaining team began meetings with their counterparts at the three impacted Mount Sinai hospitals Friday morning at the request of a mediator.<\/p>\n

The union met Thursday night with NewYork-Presbyterian officials and a federal mediator in the first negotiations since roughly 15,000 nurses walked off the job Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both sides said the hours-long meeting ended with very little progress made to end the city\u2019s biggest strike of its kind in decades. <\/p>\n

The hospital said in a statement that the discussions focused on addressing the union\u2019s concerns about staffing levels, but that it still views the union\u2019s proposals as \u201cunreasonable.\u201d <\/p>\n

The union said it put forward revised proposals that hospital officials rejected without offering a counter proposal. It also said the talks ran past midnight and were observed by about 70 nurses after the proceedings were eventually opened up to regular union members. <\/p>\n

Both sides said there\u2019s so far no further plans to meet. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we continue to be far apart, we are committed to bargaining in good faith,\u201d NewYork-Presbyterian said in a statement. \u201cWe are committed to safe staffing and have the best staffing ratios in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile union negotiations still have not resumed with Montefiore, the third major hospital system impacted. <\/p>\n

The union said previously that it had expected to sit down<\/a> with officials from the Bronx-based health care provider Friday, but the hospital disputed that claim, saying a meeting was never planned. <\/p>\n

\u201cNYSNA nurses respect the mediators and are ready and willing to come to the bargaining table when they call,\u201d Nancy Hagans, the nurses\u2019 union president, said in a statement. \u201cWe urge hospital executives to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each medical center is negotiating with the union independently, and not every hospital run by the three health care systems is affected by the strike.<\/p>\n

The affected hospitals say their operations have been running smoothly since they hired thousands of temporary nurses to keep emergency rooms and other facilities open during the strike. <\/p>\n

Dr. Philip Ozuah, president of Montefiore Einstein in the Bronx, one of the hospital campuses impacted by the strike, praised those still on the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother day, another miracle,\u201d he wrote in a letter to staff. \u201cMany thanks to our amazing teams, our most complex and exacting mission continues\u2026providing life-saving care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — New York City nurses on strike say they\u2019ve restarted contract talks with another one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[130177,127,114,122,163,521,85,46,1509,11845,917],"class_list":{"0":"post-241942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-130177","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-labor-unions","17":"tag-strikes","18":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}