Overview
- More than 15,000 NYSNA nurses at Mount Sinai, Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian have been on strike since Jan. 12.
- Mediators are coordinating negotiations as the union says enforceable staffing ratios and workplace-violence protections remain unresolved and hospital systems say they have offered proposals.
- Nurses held public actions, including a Thursday protest calling for ICE out of hospitals joined by several members of Congress and a Friday speak-out with major labor groups.
- Mount Sinai CEO Brendan Carr told staff the hospital extended contracts with travel nurses for “another few weeks” to avoid service interruptions.
- Officials say hospitals have canceled some elective procedures and adjusted patient volumes, and Gov. Kathy Hochul renewed the order allowing outside clinicians to work.