Nurses are back on the picket line on Monday after negotiations between the union and five private hospital systems have stalled.
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Nurses are back on the picket line on Monday after negotiations between the union and five private hospital systems have stalled
Nurses braved the snow on Sunday as the largest nurses strike in New York City’s history hit its one-week mark. Roughly 15,000 nurses walked off the job last week
On Thursday and Friday, the union sat down with NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospitals. But sources tell NY1 the talks did not continue over the weekend
Nurses braved the snow on Sunday as the largest nurses strike in New York City’s history hit its one-week mark. Roughly 15,000 nurses walked off the job last week.
On Thursday and Friday, the union sat down with NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospitals.
But sources tell NY1 the talks did not continue over the weekend.
The nurses union says it has made what it calls “significant revisions” to its demands.
According to the hospitals, the union’s proposals are still “unreasonable.”
These nurses have gotten a lot of support from different elected officials on the first day of the strike, such as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York state Attorney General Letitia James.
New City Council Speaker Julie Menin is expected to join the strike Monday as the nurses continue to have the backing of elected officials.
Despite the snow and temperatures dropping, these nurses have remained on the picket line at all five of the locations that the strike is impacting. They say that until they get a fair deal on the four issues that they have remained strong on — safe staffing, ratios, workplace safety, wage increases and health care benefits — they will remain out no matter what the weather is.
Mount Sinai released a statement Friday, saying, in part: “We have extended our contracts for agency nurses to ensure we have a workforce willing to provide care to our patients. We are onboarding an additional complement of agency nurses focused on specialty areas so that we can rapidly bring our scheduled surgical volumes back to normal.”
All five private hospitals affected by the strike are still open and continuing to provide care with support from temporary nurses and the state health department.