Overview
- Nearly 15,000 nurses at Mount Sinai, Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian are on strike in the city’s largest nurses’ walkout.
- Striking nurses seek enforceable staffing ratios, higher pay, fully funded benefits and stronger protections from workplace violence.
- Hospitals say services are open, with Mount Sinai deploying about 1,400 agency nurses and reporting 20% to 23% of scheduled nurses crossed the picket line.
- Mount Sinai fired three labor-and-delivery nurses over alleged sabotage of strike-preparedness drills, while the union denies wrongdoing and has filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB.
- Hospital leaders cite steep costs and policy concerns — including Montefiore’s $3.6 billion estimate, NewYork-Presbyterian’s roughly $2 billion figure and Mount Sinai’s $1.6 billion claim — as well as objections to a substance-use protections proposal the union says is being mischaracterized.