The New York State Nurses Association will resume their negotiations with all three hospitals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The nurses’ union says it will hold a press conference on their progress at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx with City Council Labor Chair Shirley Aldebol at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
The two-and-a-half-week-old strike had some signs of progress when the union reached a deal on maintaining health benefits at two hospitals – this was a key sticking point.<\/p>\n
The union says Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian have agreed to keep the nurses’ current health plan.<\/p>\n
Still, the hospitals and nurses must reach final tentative contract agreements.<\/p>\n
Due to the winter storm, nurses were not on the picket lines on Sunday or Monday, but were back out there Tuesday since there is no final deal.<\/p>\n
NewYork-Presbyterian released a statement on Tuesday after breaking for the night saying, “The NewYork-Presbyterian bargaining team was on site at the Javits Center today, working through the mediator to exchange proposals on non-economic matters. We made incremental progress and reached one tentative agreement. We are scheduled to bargain again tomorrow, January 28.”<\/p>\n
They previously said on Sunday that “Through the mediator, NYSNA and hospital leadership have agreed on a process wherein the Trustees of the Health Benefits Plan will form a committee to work on potential savings and programs in our nurses’ healthcare plan.”<\/p>\n
Montefiore says health care benefits were never on their bargain table.<\/p>\n
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