New York NY – NYSNA Nurses continue to strike with management refusing to negotiate core issues.
Nurses had hoped to make progress at the bargaining table and avert a strike, but management at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian would not negotiate contracts that improve safe staffing, fully fund health benefits for nurses and protect nurses from workplace violence.
Instead of following the lead of New York City’s eight Safety-Net Hospitals and Northwell Health’s three hospitals on Long Island that have negotiated a contract, New York City’s wealthiest Academic Hospitals are forcing nurses out on strike and refusing to negotiate with NYSNA.
At a morning news conference today, NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said: “Unfortunately, greedy Hospital executives have decided to put profits above safe patient care and force Nurses out on Strike when we would rather be at the bedsides of our patients. Hospital management refuses to address our most important issues – patient and Nurse safety. It is shameful the City’s richest Hospitals refuse to continue health care benefits for Front-Line Nurses, refuse to staff safely for our patients and refuse to protect us from workplace violence. It is deeply offensive that they would rather use their billions to fight against their own Nurses than settle a fair contract. Nurses do not want to strike, but our bosses have forced us out on strike.”
