Overview
- Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian agreed through mediators to keep the current NYSNA Plan A health coverage without cuts, the nurses union said.
- Both hospital systems maintain they never proposed reducing benefits, while Montefiore says benefits were not on its bargaining table and is not part of the deal.
- Roughly 15,000 nurses remain off the job, with picketing paused during the storm on Sunday and Monday and slated to restart Tuesday.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul extended a disaster emergency through Feb. 2 allowing out-of-state clinicians to work, and hospitals continue operating with agency nurses to keep emergency services open.
- Negotiations have narrowed on economics, with Mount Sinai citing a union wage proposal of 7%/6%/5% over three years and management touting lump-sum options, yet both sides say they remain far apart.