NYSNA Update: October 3, 2025
Mount Sinai Nurses Win Victory on Bargaining Location, Deliver Platform Petition
Mount Sinai Hospital members brought their demand for on-site bargaining to the boss at a labor management meeting on Sept. 17. The very next day, during the first day of negotiations, management agreed to bargaining on or near campus at Mount Sinai Hospital, the first of many victories to come.
On Monday, Sept. 29, Mount Sinai Morningside and West nurses presented their platform petition. Nurses opened by reading out their petition, which received over 1,300 signatures. Nurses outlined their demands and spoke about staffing enforcement, workplace violence, investments in artificial intelligence, break coverage and more. Nurses shared powerful testimony and explained how important their bargaining platform is for patients and nurses.
Courts Confirm NYP Nurses’ Arbitration Victory!
In a huge victory for nurses, a federal court confirmed the staffing arbitration award of NYSNA nurses from the Emergency Department (ED) at NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) Allen! At their arbitration in September 2024, nurses presented evidence of 143 staffing violations, and the arbitrator held that there was “evidence of excessive workload, unsafe working conditions, or burnout.” As a remedy, the arbitrator awarded three vacation days for each full-time regular Allen ED nurse. NYP sought to vacate this award in court, arguing that this remedy was unlawful. Judge Ronnie Abrams of the Southern District of New York federal court rejected this argument in her decision, holding that the award is compensatory, not punitive, and that it is within the arbitrator’s authority. The court affirmed that the award was intended to compensate nurses “for working under the adverse conditions of an understaffed shift” and that “the inconvenience and hardship suffered by the 47 nurses over the course of the year therefore qualifies as a cognizable harm.”
Now, NYSNA nurses have multiple federal court decisions affirming their right to hold NYP accountable for staffing violations. Congratulations, Allen Hospital ED nurses, on this tremendous victory! NYP may try to delay justice, but it can’t deny nurses justice!
Samaritan Nurses March on the Boss, Demand Fair Contract
On Wednesday, Oct. 1, NYSNA nurses at Samaritan Medical Center engaged in two actions in support of their fight for a fair contract. First, nurses delivered a petition to management, demanding a fair contract that includes enforceable safe staffing, a safe workplace, and a secure future in the form of fair wages and respectful benefits. More than 300 nurses at the hospital signed the petition in solidarity with their bargaining committee.
Nurses also organized a button campaign to remind management that nurses are worth more than a pizza party! While management might think that the occasional pizza party is a suitable replacement for safe staffing and respectful wages and benefits, nurses know their worth and won’t stop fighting until they get the fair contract that Samaritan nurses and patients deserve!
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