NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — More than 10,000 nurses at the Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospital systems began their return to work on Valentine’s Day, one month after walking off the job in what’s become New York City’s largest and longest nurses’ strike.
Nurses at the two hospitals voted to ratify new contracts earlier this week.
The new three-year contracts include a 12% raise over three years, flattened healthcare costs, improved staffing standards and protections against workplace violence.
The agreement represents a major step forward, but the strike continues for the more than 4,200 nurses who work at NewYork-Presbyterian after they voted against a tentative agreement.
“Beginning late yesterday (2/10), NYSNA brought the mediators’ comprehensive proposal to a vote with the NewYork-Presbyterian nurses represented by NYSNA. The voting has concluded, and we are disappointed that our nurses did not ratify the mediators’ proposal, which we had accepted on 2/8, and NYSNA leadership endorsed,” NewYork-Presbyterian said in a statement.
Some nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian had protested the vote, saying they were being pressure by the union to vote “yes” on a contract that the local negotiating team rejected.
Even as nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai are celebrating their ratified deal, they support union nurses who remain on strike at NewYork-Presbyterian.
“We want people to go to their strike lines, support them, they’re looking for grocery donations, food donations, donations to the strike fund, donations to them directly, they’re going on week five of being on strike, so we have to go to their strike line, support them as much as we can,” nurse Dania Munoz told Eyewitness News.
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