Today at 8:00 P.M.: NYC Hospitals Break Commitment to Maintain Nurses’ Health Benefits and Commitment to Bargain in Good Faith After Being Urged Back to the Table by Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TODAY, FRIDAY JAN 23. AT 8:00 PM
Contact: Andrea Penman-Lomeli | press@nysna.org | 347-559-3169
Kristi Barnes | press@nysna.org | 646-853-4489
NYC Hospitals Break Commitment to Maintain Nurses’ Health Benefits and Commitment to Bargain in Good Faith After Being Urged Back to the Table by Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani
After less than two days back at the negotiating table, Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian move forward on their demands for drastic cuts to nurses’ healthcare, choosing to leave striking nurses out in the cold rather than fund their health care
NYSNA leaders to provide briefing on status of contract talks at 8:00 PM
New York, NY—On Thursday, Jan. 22, NYSNA nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, and NewYork-Presbyterian returned to the negotiating table after Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani urged all parties to reconvene. Nurses declared they were ready to bargain every day until they reach tentative contract agreements with all four hospitals.
Although NYSNA nurses at all four hospitals lowered their salary proposals on the first day back at bargaining, upholding their commitment to negotiate on wages, hospital management at Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian reneged on their commitment to maintain frontline nurses’ health benefits. All hospital systems reneged on their commitment to offer straightforward counter-proposals on salaries that would not make nurses choose between maintaining their health benefits, getting a pay raise, or improving hospital safety. They continue to propose drastic cuts to health benefits for frontline nurses and their families.
NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, BSN, CCRN, and striking nurse leaders at local hospitals will provide an update on negotiations and why nearly 15,000 nurses continue to strike in the cold and in the snow to protect patient and nurse safety.
WHAT: Striking nurses hold press conference on the breakdown in bargaining
WHEN: Today, Friday, Jan. 23 at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Javits Center, 11th Avenue at 35th Street, inside mezzanine level
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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.