Overview
- NYSNA reached tentative agreements at seven safety‑net hospitals, prompting those facilities to withdraw strike notices.
- Roughly 16,700–17,000 nurses at large private systems — Montefiore, multiple Mount Sinai campuses, NewYork‑Presbyterian/Columbia, BronxCare, Brooklyn Hospital and Flushing Hospital — remain in talks and could strike Jan. 12; Northwell’s Huntington, Plainview and Syosset hospitals on Long Island also face the same deadline.
- The tentative deals feature enforceable staffing standards, fully employer‑funded health benefits, pension continuity, workplace‑violence protections and AI language guaranteeing a nurse at the bedside, according to the union.
- Hospitals and the city’s Office of Emergency Management activated contingency plans, including hiring outside nurses, running staffing drills and preparing patient diversions, and the union filed an unfair labor practice charge accusing Mount Sinai of requiring nurses to train replacements.
- Hospital leaders say the union’s economic proposals are unaffordable, with Mount Sinai estimating $3.59 billion over three years, while the union calls those figures exaggerated.