CITYWIDE — NEW YORK STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION members on Monday at 6 a.m. walked off the job at three private hospital systems across New York City, including Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian. With roughly 15,000 nurses on the picket line, the action is the largest nurses strike in city history and is happening during a surge in influenza cases. 

According to NYSNA, sticking points include threatened cuts to healthcare benefits and safe staffing standards, along with protections from workplace violence, following recent assaults and shootings in hospitals, including recently at NewYork-Presbyterian Methodist Hospital in Fort Greene.

Previously, nurses at safety-net hospitals including Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Maimonides Medical Center, One Brooklyn Health Interfaith Medical Center, One Brooklyn Health Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center and The Brooklyn Hospital Center reached tentative agreements.

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