{"id":107889,"date":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107889\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","slug":"nurses-and-nyc-hospitals-head-back-to-bargaining-table-but-strike-rages-on-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107889\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses and NYC hospitals head back to bargaining table but strike rages on for now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Striking Big Apple nurses and the major hospital systems they\u2019re battling are expected to return<\/a> to the bargaining table, the staffers\u2019 union revealed Wednesday as the work stoppage reached its 10th day.<\/p>\n

The New York State Nurses Association said that contract deliberations will resume between its members and Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian officials on Thursday as the medical staffers and hospitals have battled over pay, benefits, staffing and workplace safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cNurses stand ready to bargain to reach fair contracts and end the strike. With continued support of mediators, nurses plan on bargaining daily to settle fair contracts that protect patient and nurse safety,\u201d the NYSNA said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The strike has lasted ten days. Lev Radin\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cNurses will continue to picket and strike until tentative agreements are reached with the hospitals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The union noted that the renewed discussions were pushed by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has outwardly taken the sides of the nurses, appearing on the picket line twice since the strike started, including with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I\u2019m very heartened by the news, and each and every day that I\u2019ve been at the picket line or spoken about the strike, I\u2019ve always encouraged a swift and immediate resolution to the strike,\u201d he said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Hochul\u2019s office said in a statement the Democratic governor is encouraged that both sides are coming back to the table.<\/p>\n

The union is fighting with the hospitals over pay, benefits, staffing and workplace safety. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernor Hochul\u2019s top priority remains safeguarding patients in these hospitals and ensuring they have access to necessary care,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Governor continues to strongly urge both sides to continue negotiations until an agreement is reached that acknowledges the pivotal role nurses play in ensuring our healthcare systems deliver high-quality care to New Yorkers and their families,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

NewYork-Presbyterian said in a brief statement it intends to restart bargaining.<\/p>\n

Mount Sinai and Montefiore did not have immediate comments on the union\u2019s announcement. <\/p>\n

The affected hospitals have used traveling nurses during the strike to fill the void. <\/p>\n

A labor relations specialist, Seton Hall professor Karen Boroff, said in an interview that as the strike\u00a0extends longer, the union\u2019s leverage drops.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the agency employees, those temporary nurses, get more skilled in what\u2019s going on, the hospital learns to manage with those \u2018replacements,\u2019\u201d said Boroff, who is dean emerita of management at the New Jersey school.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it begins to shift bargaining power toward management\u2019s side in terms of withstanding the strike.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But Rebecca Givan, a Rutgers associate professor in labor studies and employment relations, said the hospitals\u00a0have more reason to want to cut a quicker deals because of the money they are\u00a0pouring into traveling nurses.<\/p>\n

She also said prospective patients might not want to get treatment at hospitals affected by the strike.<\/p>\n

The strike began on Jan. 12. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s bad for the hospital to let it drag out,\u201d Givan said.<\/p>\n

Hospitals have insisted their operations are running smoothly while nurses on the picket line have said they are ready for the long haul.<\/p>\n

The union has claimed the hospitals have money to spend on their demands, pointing to the salaries of their executives while the medical centers have accused the union of requesting unreasonable terms.<\/p>\n

Regardless of how the strike ends, labor historian Joshua Freeman told The Post it\u2019ll go down as an historic labor action.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen a strike like this in a number of years. It\u2019s a landmark strike,\u201d said Freeman, an\u00a0emeritus\u00a0professor at the CUNY Graduate School.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nurses have a lot of public support but the hospitals are very powerful and have a lot of resources. It seems like a stalemate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Striking Big Apple nurses and the major hospital systems they\u2019re battling are expected to return to the bargaining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26920,57,26613,22195,9,22196,23187,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-107889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-labor-strikes","tag-metro","tag-montefiore-medical-center","tag-mount-sinai-hospital","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-presbyterian-hospital","tag-nurses","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}