Overview
- Roughly 15,000 nurses at Mount Sinai, Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian remained on strike Wednesday with no deal reported.
- Mount Sinai confirmed it fired three nurses before the walkout for allegedly sabotaging emergency preparedness drills, allegations the nurses and the union deny.
- Hospital leaders say operations and emergency departments remain open, with Mount Sinai reporting about 1,400 temporary nurses on site and state officials monitoring conditions.
- The union’s demands include enforceable staffing ratios, higher pay, fully funded benefits and stronger workplace-violence protections, which hospital systems characterize as unaffordable.
- Montefiore cited roughly $3.6 billion in costs tied to union proposals and NewYork-Presbyterian estimated about $2 billion in wage increases over three years, while nurses stress patient safety and equitable care for overcrowded, underserved communities.