NYC nurses reach a deal to end a strike at 2 major hospitals while walkout continues at another

NEW YORK (AP) — Nurses and 2 large infirmary systems successful New York City person reached a woody to extremity a astir monthlong onslaught implicit staffing levels, workplace safety, wellness security and different issues.

The tentative statement announced Monday by the national representing nurses involves the Montefiore and Mount Sinai infirmary systems. Nurses stay connected onslaught astatine NewYork Presbyterian.

The walkout began Jan. 12, prompting the hospitals to scramble to prosecute legions of impermanent nurses to capable successful during a demanding flu season.

The national said members astatine Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals volition ballot connected whether to ratify the contracts and instrumentality to enactment this week.

The three-year woody affects astir 10,500 of the immoderate 15,000 nurses connected onslaught astatine immoderate of the city’s biggest private, nonprofit hospitals, with thousands of beds among them.

“For 4 weeks, astir 15,000 NYSNA members held the enactment successful the acold and successful the snowfall for harmless diligent care,” Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association, said successful a statement. “Now, nurses astatine Montefiore and Mount Sinai systems are heading backmost to the bedside with our heads held high.”

The nurses national said the statement calls for a 12% wage rise implicit 3 years arsenic good arsenic maintains nurses' wellness benefits with nary further out-of-pocket costs.

In addition, the pact includes caller protections against workplace violence, including circumstantial protections for transgender and migrant nurses and patients, arsenic good arsenic provisions addressing artificial quality successful hospitals, the national said.

Nurses astatine Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and Mount Sinai Morningside and West volition ballot to ratify their contracts starting Monday, the national said. If the tentative declaration agreements are ratified, nurses volition instrumentality to enactment connected Saturday.

A Montefiore spokesperson declined to remark different than to accidental its nurses are expected to ballot Wednesday connected the pact. Spokespeople for the different 2 infirmary systems didn't instantly respond to emails seeking comment.

The affected hospitals person insisted their operations are moving smoothly during the walkout, with organ transplants, cardiac surgeries and different analyzable procedures mostly uninterrupted. Many of the aesculapian centers, however, canceled scheduled surgeries, transferred immoderate patients and discharged others up of the strike.

The striking nurses priorities alteration by hospital, but staffing has mostly been a cardinal issue.

Nurses complained of being overloaded with patients, saying the hospitals held retired for weeks connected committing to much manageable diligent and staffing levels. The national said Monday that the tentative agreements would summation staffing and different code those concerns.

The hospitals support they’ve filled and adjacent added nursing jobs implicit the past 3 years, digging retired of a pandemic-era staffing crisis.

The hospitals and nurses besides person been astatine likelihood implicit benefits, and the national sought workplace information upgrades and restrictions connected the usage of artificial intelligence.

Hospital staffers’ longstanding information concerns flared into nationalist presumption erstwhile a gunman entered Mount Sinai successful November and a antheral holed up successful a Brooklyn infirmary with a crisp entity past month. Police killed some men.

The hospitals said the union’s demands were exorbitant. They accidental unionized nurses’ salaries already mean $162,000 to $165,000 a year, not including benefits.

The nurses countered that the aesculapian centers’ apical executives marque millions of dollars a year, an statement underscored by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, autarkic U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and different politicians who person visited the picket lines implicit the weeks.

Not each infirmary successful the 3 wellness attraction systems was affected by the strike. Nor were immoderate city-run nationalist hospitals. Other backstage hospitals reached last-minute deals with the union.

Nurses staged a three-day onslaught successful 2023 successful the Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems. They yet inked contracts that raised wage 19% implicit 3 years and sought to marque staffing improvements enforceable by allowing for other wage if nurses worked short-handed.

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