Overview
- Talks are continuing through the weekend at Mount Sinai’s three campuses, Montefiore, NewYork-Presbyterian and BronxCare, with nurses saying a walkout could start Monday, Jan. 12, if no deals are reached.
- Several safety-net and Brooklyn facilities have settled or pulled strike notices, including Maimonides, One Brooklyn Health’s Interfaith and Kingsbrook, Wyckoff Heights, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Flushing Hospital and Richmond University Medical Center.
- Northwell facilities on Long Island reached a tentative agreement on Friday, averting a separate strike there.
- Union leaders cite enforceable staffing ratios, protection of health benefits, wages and stronger workplace-violence safeguards as key demands, with some tentative deals also addressing the use of AI in patient care.
- Hospital systems dispute the union’s cost claims and insist they can maintain care during any strike, with Montefiore preparing for a potential multi-week action and Mount Sinai saying it has not sought benefit cuts and has hired more than 1,000 nurses in three years.