Nearly 10,500 NYSNA members at Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West reached tentative agreements to end the strike on Monday.
This comes nearly a month into the nurses’ strike, which was the largest in New York City’s history.
The walkouts began on Jan. 12, and made hospitals scramble to hire legions of temporary nurses during the demanding flu season.
The agreement includes safe staffing standards, health benefits, increased salaries, and safeguards against artificial intelligence.
“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 frontline nurses,” said NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, BSN, CCRN.
The union said members at Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals will vote on whether to ratify the contracts and return to work this week.
Around 4,200 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian are continuing to strike and are expected to return to the picket line.
NewYork-Presbyterian representatives released the following statement:
"Early Sunday (2/8) the mediators presented a comprehensive proposal to all parties. NewYork-Presbyterian accepted the proposal which includes the same wage increases for all three hospitals, as well as preserves the pension, maintains our nurses’ health benefits, and includes increased staffing levels. We look forward to bringing our nurses back to care for our patients."
AP Wire services contributed to this report