{"id":140685,"date":"2026-02-21T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:00:09","slug":"union-and-new-york-hospital-system-reach-a-tentative-deal-to-end-the-citys-largest-nursing-strike-the-morning-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140685\/","title":{"rendered":"Union and New York hospital system reach a tentative deal to end the city\u2019s largest nursing strike \u2013 The Morning Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City\u2019s largest nursing strike in decades<\/a> is poised to end after more than 4,000 nurses seeking better staffing and job security at NewYork-Presbyterian reached a tentative contract agreement with management early Friday.<\/p>\n

The New York State Nurses Association said union negotiators and administrators at the last of three major hospital systems hit by the more than monthlong walkout approved a tentative deal but did not disclose specific details.<\/p>\n

The proposal now goes to union members for a vote. If ratified, nurses would return to work as early as next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased to have reached a tentative settlement with NYSNA, through the mediator, that reflects our tremendous respect for our nurses\u2014the settlement is still subject to ratification,\u201d NewYork-Presbyterian spokesperson Angela Karafazli said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Union officials said in a statement Friday that the nurses will return to work next week if members vote to ratify.<\/p>\n

The roughly 4,200 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian had been the last remaining on the picket line during bitterly cold temperatures<\/a> in what their union said was the largest and longest walkout of nurses in the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Some 10,500 nurses in the Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospitals ratified new three-year contracts<\/a> on Feb. 11, but NewYork-Presbyterian nurses rejected the proposals.<\/p>\n

The union said the Montefiore and Mount Sinai deals included pay raises of more than 12% over three years.<\/p>\n

They also maintained nurses\u2019 health benefits with no additional out-of-pocket costs and included new protections against workplace violence, particularly for transgender and immigrant nurses and patients.<\/p>\n

The union said the pacts even included new safeguards against the use of artificial intelligence in hospitals for the first time.<\/p>\n

The strike began Jan. 12 at three of the city\u2019s largest and most prestigious private health systems.<\/p>\n

Hospitals hired legions of temporary nurses to fill in staffing gaps during a demanding flu season<\/a>, raising concerns<\/a> among some of the hospital system\u2019s most vulnerable patients and their families.<\/p>\n

During a bumpy, contentious negotiation, hospitals complained the union\u2019s demands were unreasonable and exorbitant. Nurses countered that top hospital executives make millions of dollars a year<\/a> while saddling nurses with unmanageable workloads.<\/p>\n

An arbitrator this month awarded nearly $400,000 to some nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian\u2019s Morgan Stanley Children\u2019s Hospital for having to work while short-staffed in 2023 and 2024, the union said, heralding the decision as evidence of the problems that prompted the strike. NewYork-Presbyterian responded that \u201csafe staffing is always a priority\u201d and that it has hired hundreds of nurses in the last three years.<\/p>\n

The strike did not affect every hospital in the NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems, and nurses at city-run hospitals did not participate. Other private hospitals also reached last-minute deals with the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City\u2019s largest nursing strike in decades is poised to end after more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[288,2953,75,84,83,7299,607,9,24,12,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-140685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-nation","14":"tag-national-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140685","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=140685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}