New York
Act Daily News
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More than 8,700 nurses are ready to go on strike Monday at 6 am ET if tentative contract agreements are usually not reached at a number of New York City hospitals, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) President Nancy Hagans stated at a digital press convention Saturday morning.
That’s a drop from the unique estimate of 9,500, after tentative agreements had been reached late Friday and Saturday morning with different services.
In a press release Saturday, the NYSNA stated nurses at BronxCare and The Brooklyn Hospital Center reached tentative agreements that can enhance protected staffing ranges and enforcement, improve wages by 7%, 6%, and 5% yearly throughout their three-year contract, and retain their healthcare advantages.
Negotiations are persevering with at Montefiore Bronx and the Mount Sinai Morningside and West campuses forward of Monday’s deliberate strike, Hagans stated. The union president advised reporters Saturday that the principle Mount Sinai Hospital complicated left the bargaining desk late Thursday and has not reached out to the union to schedule any additional bargaining periods since.
A Mount Sinai spokesperson advised Act Daily News the hospital system is actively bargaining with the Mount Sinai Morningside and West campuses underneath separate union agreements. The spokesperson added that administration is “waiting for the union to come back to us” and resume negotiations for nurses on the predominant Mount Sinai hospital facility.
On Saturday, nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian introduced that they agreed to ratify their settlement, however it was a detailed vote – 57% nurses voted sure and 43% had been towards.
“Voting on whether to ratify a contract is a key component of union democracy. Just like in any democracy, there is rarely 100 percent consensus,” Hagans stated in a press release.
To date, nurses at 5 New York City hospitals who had been slated to strike on Monday have now reached tentative agreements or contracts.
The NYSNA additionally hit again Saturday at feedback from Mount Sinai, which stated Friday it was transferring infants in its Neonatal Intensive Care items to different space hospitals due to over the strike discover, saying that the hospital was “dismayed by NYSNA’s reckless actions.”
Matt Allen, the union’s regional director, stated, “As a labor and delivery nurse who helps mothers to bring babies into this world, I find it outrageous that Mount Sinai would compromise care for our NICU babies in any way. We already have NICU nurses caring for twice as many sick babies as they should.”
He added, “It’s unconscionable that Mount Sinai refuses to address unsafe staffing in our NICU and other units of the hospital but is now stirring fears about our NICU babies in contract negotiations.”