Overview
- Nurses began walking off at 6 a.m. at Mount Sinai sites, followed by 7 a.m. walkouts at Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian in Manhattan and the Bronx.
- The union cites enforceable staffing ratios, protection from workplace violence, preserved health benefits and higher pay as priorities, while hospitals call the proposals unaffordable.
- Under contingency plans, hospitals reported keeping facilities open, with Mount Sinai bringing in more than 1,000 to 1,400 agency nurses and some nonurgent care rescheduled or transferred.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul’s disaster order runs through Feb. 8 with state health officials stationed at affected facilities and permission for out-of-state and Canadian clinicians to practice.
- Hospital leaders warned the stoppage could last weeks as talks continue without a public breakthrough, even as several other systems reached deals and the mayor joined nurses on the picket lines.