(NEW YORK CITY) – The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) announced today (Monday, February 9th) that 10,500 NYSNA Members employed at Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West in New York City have reached tentative contract agreements with their Hospitals.

NYSNA Nurses will vote on whether to ratify the contracts and return to work this week.

Nurses fought for and won tentative agreements that: Maintain enforceable Safe Staffing Standards and increase the number of Nurses to improve patient care; Protect their health benefits that Hospitals threatened to drastically cut; Protect Nurses from workplace violence; Protect Immigrant and Transgender patients and Nurses; Safeguard against Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their contracts for the first time; Increase salaries by more than 12% over the life of the three-year contract to recruit and retain Nurses for safe patient care; Beat back aggressive take aways on health care and safe staffing enforcement; and Return all Nurses to work after ratification.

More details on the tentative agreements will follow ratification, Union Officials said.

NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said: “For four weeks, nearly (15,000) NYSNA Members held the line in the cold and in the snow for safe patient care. Now, Nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai Systems are heading back to the bedside with our heads held high after winning fair tentative contracts that maintain enforceable Safe Staffing Ratios, improve protections from workplace violence and maintain health benefits with no additional out-of-pocket costs for Front-Line Nurses.”

NYSNA Executive Director Pat Kane said: “I’m so proud of the resilience and strength of NYSNA Nurses. They have shown that when we fight, we win. Nurses sacrificed their own pay and health care while on strike to defend patient care for all of New York. We helped galvanize a movement for Worker and health care justice that reached beyond New York City."

Nurses began bargaining in September and went on the largest and longest Nurse Strike in New York City History on January 12th.

They picketed through some of the coldest temperatures in the City and demonstrated their incredible resolve to protect patient and Nurse safety through fair contracts, NYSNA said.  

However, the Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike at NewYork-Presbyterian continues.

The key sticking point in negotiations is safe staffing.  

Nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and Mount Sinai Morningside and West will vote to ratify their contracts between February 9th and the 11th.

If the tentative contract agreements are ratified, Nurses will return to work on Saturday (February 14th).  

NYSNA - which represents more than 42,000 Members across the State, is New York’s largest Union and Professional Association for Registered Nurses (RNs).

NYSNA is an Affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), the country's largest and fastest-growing Union and Professional Association of RNs, with more than 225,000 Members nationwide.

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