Overview
- About 4,200 NewYork-Presbyterian nurses, the last group still on strike, reached a mediator-brokered three-year tentative contract after overnight negotiations, with voting scheduled Friday through Saturday.
- The proposal includes improved enforceable safe-staffing standards, additional nursing positions, protections against workplace violence, and first-time safeguards on the use of artificial intelligence.
- Salaries would rise by more than 12% over three years while employer-funded health benefits are maintained with no added out-of-pocket costs for nurses.
- The agreement follows an earlier proposal that rank-and-file nurses overwhelmingly rejected last week, prompting a reset in talks and now drawing support from the bargaining committee.
- During the strike, hospitals used travel nurses, postponed elective surgeries, and transferred some patients, while an arbitrator awarded nearly $400,000 to nurses at NYP’s Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital for chronic understaffing in 2023–24.