Nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Affiliation (NYSNA) at NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) have ended New York Metropolis’s longest nurse strike after 41 days, with the approval of a brand new three-year contract.
The strike, which started on January 12, introduced some 15,000 nurses out to picket in opposition to Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore Medical Heart, and NewYork-Presbyterian. Nurses stated they needed enforceable staffing ratios, improved office security, honest wages, and safety of well being advantages.
Contract negotiations between NYSNA and 12 of the town’s non-public hospitals started in September 2025. By late December, nurses at a number of hospitals, together with BronxCare, Brooklyn Hospital, Flushing Hospital, Interfaith Medical Heart, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Heart, Maimonides, Montefiore, Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian, Richmond College, and Wyckoff Heights, voted to situation 10-day strike notices, warning that they might go on strike in the event that they have been unable to succeed in an settlement on a brand new labor contract.
NYSNA’s principal calls for included implementing enforceable protected staffing requirements, doing one thing about persistent nursing shortages and heavy workloads for on-the-job nurses, and guaranteeing that affected person care was not compromised by stopping overflow sufferers from being positioned in hallways. The nurses additionally needed higher office security measures put in place in gentle of extra incidents in hospitals, wage will increase of 12% to 19% over three years, and safety of their medical health insurance and pension plans. In addition they pushed for higher pandemic security protocols and institution of a proper physique to affect work circumstances.
Negotiations between NYSNA and hospital administration have been contentious, with union representatives criticizing using short-term journey nurses throughout the strike, claiming it aimed to undermine solidarity. Hospital directors argued that staffing ratios and pay would impose unsustainable prices and voiced issues about affected person security throughout the work stoppage.
Regardless of these tensions, the breakthrough got here late final week, when NYSNA nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian voted by a decisive margin — 93% in favor — to ratify the brand new contract. The ratification adopted comparable votes at different main hospitals, with Mount Sinai’s nurses approving their contract by 87% and Montefiore’s by 86%.
The settlement contains enforceable protected staffing requirements, elevated nurse hiring, safety of well being advantages, enhanced office security provisions, safeguards for immigrant sufferers and nurses, and — for the primary time — contractual language addressing using synthetic intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Over the lifetime of the settlement, nurses will see wage will increase exceeding 12%.
NYSNA President Nancy Hagans stated the contract settlement was historic for each the union and the town’s communities: “It is a proud second for our union. Fifteen thousand NYSNA nurses went out on strike, and eventually all 15,000 can be returning to the bedside. We’re so proud of the wins we achieved, and now the battle to implement these contracts and maintain our employers accountable begins. NYSNA nurses confirmed what it means to advocate for sufferers, and this second will go down in historical past as a win for our communities within the battle for healthcare justice, and for the labor motion.”
