NYSNA Nurse Strike Update Jan. 31

For Immediate Release: Jan. 31, 2026 
Contact: Kristi Barnes | press@nysna.org | 646-853-4489
Eliza Bates | press@nysna.org | 646-285-8491

New York, NY — On Jan. 31, NYSNA nurses from Montefiore, Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, and NewYork-Presbyterian came to the bargaining table at the Javits Center.

The following statement can be attributed to the New York State Nurses Association:

As NYSNA nurses have said from the very beginning of bargaining in September, and even after 20 days on strike in the bitter cold, we are not willing to cut corners on patient and nurse safety. Today, nurses gathered at the Javits Center and put forward comprehensive revised proposals that improve safe staffing levels with no takeaways on safe staffing accountability, protect nurses’ health benefits, prevent workplace violence, and increase wages to help recruit and retain experienced nurses at the bedside. We streamlined and revised our proposals in an effort to bring hospital executives back to the table to negotiate in good faith and settle fair contracts as quickly as possible that get nurses back to work to care for New York City.  

NYSNA nurses are serious about settling fair contracts and getting back to work delivering the quality care all New Yorkers deserve. Now hospitals need to get serious at the bargaining table, end this strike, settle fair contracts that immediately and unconditionally bring back the nurses who are committed to care for our communities, and finally show that they respect New York City’s frontline nurse heroes and our patients.  

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The New York State Nurses Association represents more than 42,000 members in New York State. We are New York’s largest union and professional association for registered nurses. NYSNA is an affiliate of National Nurses United, AFL-CIO, the country's largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses, with more than 225,000 members nationwide.