Overview
- Nurses at five safety‑net hospitals reached tentative agreements and rescinded strike notices, with member votes still to come.
- More than 16,700 nurses at seven privately run hospitals, including multiple Mount Sinai sites, Montefiore, NewYork‑Presbyterian, Flushing and Brooklyn Hospital Center, could strike as soon as Jan. 12.
- Union priorities include enforceable staffing ratios, wage increases, employer‑paid health coverage, protections from workplace violence and limits on the use of artificial intelligence.
- Mount Sinai says it is integrating outside nurses and running staffing disruption drills, and New York City’s emergency management office is preparing to coordinate patient transfers if needed.
- Mount Sinai argues NYSNA’s proposals would cost $3.59 billion and sharply raise average pay, claims union leaders dispute while pointing to safety‑net deals that they say protect patients and nurses.