Overview
- Walkouts began at 6 a.m. at Mount Sinai sites and at 7 a.m. at Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian, spanning campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx.
- The union’s priorities include enforceable staffing ratios, preserving employer-funded health benefits, protections from workplace violence, and higher wages.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive order allows out-of-state and Canadian clinicians to practice temporarily and deploys state Health Department staff inside affected hospitals.
- Hospitals say they brought in temporary nurses — Mount Sinai reports 1,400 — and adjusted operations, with some surgeries canceled and patients transferred or discharged sooner.
- Union and hospital officials describe the action as the city’s largest nurses’ strike to date, and some executives warn the stoppage could last weeks as bargaining continues during a severe flu season.