Victory: Nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Mount Sinai Morningside and West Reach Tentative Agreements to End Strike
For Immediate Release: Feb. 9, 2026
Contact: Andrea Penman-Lomeli | press@nysna.org | 347-559-3169
Eliza Bates | press@nysna.org | 646-285-8491
VICTORY: NURSES AT MONTEFIORE, MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL AND MOUNT SINAI MORNINGSIDE AND WEST REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENTS TO END STRIKE
Approximately 10,500 nurses at Montefiore and the Mount Sinai system will vote to ratify contracts that protect patient and nurse safety
Nurses will hold ratification votes, then return to work this week
Approximately 4,200 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian continue to strike, back on the picket line today
New York, NY — Approximately 10,500 NYSNA members at Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West reached tentative agreements with their hospitals late Sunday/ early Monday. Members will vote on whether to ratify the contracts and return to work this week.
Nurses fought for and won tentative agreements that:
- Maintain enforceable safe staffing standards and increase the number of nurses to improve patient care.
- Protect their health benefits that hospitals threatened to drastically cut.
- Protect nurses from workplace violence.
- Protect immigrant and trans patients and nurses.
- Safeguard against artificial intelligence in their contracts for the first time.
- Increase salaries by more than 12% over the life of the 3-year contract to recruit and retain nurses for safe patient care.
- Beat back aggressive take aways on healthcare and safe staffing enforcement.
- Return all nurses to work after ratification.
More details on the tentative agreements will follow ratification.
NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, BSN, CCRN said, “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.”
NYSNA Executive Director Pat Kane, RN, CNOR(e), said, “I’m so proud of the resilience and strength of NYSNA nurses. They have shown that when we fight, we win. Nurses sacrificed their own pay and healthcare while on strike to defend patient care for all of New York. We helped galvanize a movement for worker and healthcare justice that reached beyond New York City."
Nurses began bargaining in September and went on the largest and longest nurse strike in New York City history on January 12. They picketed through some of the coldest temperatures in the city and demonstrated their incredible resolve to protect patient and nurse safety through fair contracts.
The unfair labor practice strike at NewYork-Presbyterian continues. The key sticking point in negotiations is safe staffing.
Nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and Mount Sinai Morningside and West will vote to ratify their contracts on Feb. 9 – 11. If the tentative contract agreements are ratified, nurses will return to work on Saturday, Feb. 14.
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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.