{"id":127717,"date":"2026-02-09T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:04:07","slug":"nyc-nurses-reach-a-deal-to-end-a-strike-at-2-major-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127717\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC nurses reach a deal to end a strike at 2 major hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Nurses and two major hospital systems in New York City have reached a deal to end a nearly monthlong strike<\/a>\u00a0over staffing levels, workplace safety, health insurance and other issues.<\/p>\n

The tentative agreement announced Monday by the union representing nurses involves the Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospital systems. Nurses remain on strike at NewYork Presbyterian.<\/p>\n

The walkout began Jan. 12, prompting the hospitals to scramble to hire legions of temporary nurses to fill in during\u00a0a demanding flu season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The union said members at Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals will vote on whether to ratify the contracts and return to work this week.<\/p>\n

The three-year deal affects roughly 10,500 of the some 15,000 nurses on strike at some of the city\u2019s biggest private, nonprofit hospitals, with thousands of beds among them.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor four weeks, nearly 15,000 NYSNA members held the line in the cold and in the snow for safe patient care,\u201d Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association, said in a statement. \u201cNow, nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai systems are heading back to the bedside with our heads held high.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nurses union said the agreement calls for a 12% pay raise over three years as well as maintain nurses\u2019 health benefits with no additional out-of-pocket costs.<\/p>\n

The pact also includes new protections against workplace violence, including specific protections for transgender and immigrant nurses and patients, as well as safeguards against artificial intelligence, the union said.<\/p>\n

Nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and Mount Sinai Morningside and West will vote to ratify their contracts starting today, the union said.<\/p>\n

If the tentative contract agreements are ratified, nurses will return to work on Saturday.<\/p>\n

A Montefiore spokesperson declined to comment other than to say its nurses are expected to vote Wednesday on the pact.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for the other two hospital systems didn\u2019t immediately respond to emails seeking comment.<\/p>\n

The affected hospitals have insisted their\u00a0operations are running smoothly<\/a>\u00a0during the walkout, with organ transplants, cardiac surgeries and other complex procedures largely uninterrupted. Many of the medical centers, however, canceled scheduled surgeries, transferred some patients and discharged others ahead of the strike.<\/p>\n

The striking nurses priorities vary by hospital, but staffing has generally been a central issue. Nurses said they have been overloaded, and that the hospitals wouldn\u2019t commit to staffing levels that are manageable for nurses and safe for patients.<\/p>\n

The hospitals maintain they\u2019ve filled and even added nursing jobs over the last three years, digging out of a pandemic-era\u00a0staffing crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hospitals and nurses also have been at odds over benefits, and the union sought workplace security upgrades and restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Hospital staffers\u2019 longstanding security concerns flared into public view when a\u00a0gunman entered Mount Sinai<\/a>\u00a0in November and a man\u00a0holed up in a Brooklyn hospital<\/a>\u00a0with a sharp object last month. Police killed both men.<\/p>\n

The hospitals said the union\u2019s demands were exorbitant. They say unionized nurses\u2019 salaries already average $162,000 to $165,000 a year, not including benefits.<\/p>\n

The nurses countered that the medical centers\u2019 top executives make millions of dollars a year, an argument underscored by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and other politicians who have\u00a0visited the picket lines<\/a>\u00a0over the weeks.<\/p>\n

Not every hospital in the three health care systems was affected by the strike. Nor were any city-run public hospitals. Other private hospitals reached last-minute deals with the union.<\/p>\n

Nurses staged a three-day strike in 2023 in the Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems. They ultimately inked contracts that raised pay 19% over three years and sought to make staffing improvements enforceable by allowing for extra pay if nurses worked short-handed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Nurses and two major hospital systems in New York City have reached a deal to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118,7771,22195,9,44282,44240,23187,38978,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-127717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-montefiore","10":"tag-mount-sinai-hospital","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-state-nurses-association-nysna","13":"tag-newyork-presbyterian","14":"tag-nurses","15":"tag-nurses-strike","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-headlines","19":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127717","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=127717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}