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NEW YORK – Mount Sinai fired three nurses last week for “interfering with patient safety.”<\/p>\n
Nurses fired before strike <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The three nurses were terminated for interfering with patient safety by “deliberately sabotaging emergency preparedness drills,” according to Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n
This “sabotage” reportedly included hiding supplies designed to care for newborns in conference rooms, according to Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n
Local perspective:<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Jan. 12, an estimated 15,000 nurses walked off the job<\/a> at hospitals within the Mount Sinai, Montefiore and New York-Presbyterian systems.<\/p>\n Union leaders say the city’s nurses are striking after hospital administrators failed to meet their demands for better pay, safe staffing levels, fully funded health benefits and stronger workplace protections.<\/p>\n Despite no deal being reached, some nurses have returned to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Mount Sinai said about 20 percent of its nurses crossed the picket line Monday, and the hospital expects more to do so in the coming days.<\/p>\n The other side:<\/p>\n “NYSNA leadership\u2019s demand that a nurse not be terminated if found to be compromised by drugs or alcohol while on the job is another example of putting their own self-interest before patient safety,” Senior Vice President of Strategic Communications Joe Solmonese for Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx told Fox News Digital in a statement.<\/a><\/p>\n Montefiore also reportedly claimed that the New York State Nurses Association are pushing for a highly excessive increase in pay.<\/p>\n “As they double down on their $3.6 billion in reckless demands, including nearly 40% wage increases, we remain resolute in our commitment to providing safe and seamless care,”\u00a0Solmonese said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Parag Amin, Esq., a Los Angeles-based business and employment lawyer, spoke with FOX 5 NY\u2019s Teresa Priolo about the ongoing New York City nurses\u2019 strike, the largest in city history.<\/p>\n The NYSNA has yet to respond to a request for comment, according to Fox News.<\/p>\n The Source: This article includes information provided by Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n New York City<\/a>Health Care<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK – Mount Sinai fired three nurses last week for “interfering with patient safety.” Nurses fired before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5567,9,12,56,63,65,64,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-99443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-health-care","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99443","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=99443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Largest](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ssxrpeh0bnm4714m.jpg\")
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Labor attorney speaks on NYC nurses\u2019 strike<\/a> <\/p>\n