With lower than 48 hours earlier than nurses are set to stroll off the job at some New York Metropolis hospitals, their union says agreements have been reached at extra services. However the strike risk stays at 4 hospitals.
Negotiations at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are persevering with by way of the weekend, in keeping with the New York State Nurses Affiliation.
“From day one, nurses have been able to cut price,” NYSNA President Nancy Hagans mentioned Saturday. The hospitals that also have not reached an settlement “have chosen to throw away a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of {dollars} combating in opposition to their very own frontline nurses.”
The union says key sticking factors embrace what it says are threats to chop healthcare advantages for frontline nurses, an try and roll again secure staffing requirements that nurses gained after putting at two main hospitals three years in the past, and what they name a refusal to conform to protections from office violence.
However a Montefiore official responds by accusing the union’s management of constructing “reckless and irresponsible calls for totaling $3.6 billion, together with an almost 40% wage enhance.” The hospital additionally claims NYSNA is “taking subject with our cheap measures like rolling out panic buttons for frontline workers within the Emergency Division.”
“To this point, the NYS Nurses Affiliation hasn’t moved off from its unrealistic demand of practically 30% wage will increase over three years and refuses to reply to our financial and staffing proposals,” mentioned a NewYork-Presbyterian spokesperson.
After initially threatening a 10-day walkout at hospitals within the metropolis and on Lengthy Island, the union says extra walkouts had been averted Friday. Nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Middle and Wyckoff Heights Medical Middle reached full tentative agreements. NYSNA says Bronxcare nurses additionally rescinded their strike discover based mostly on agreements reached on nurse staffing, well being care and wages.
The three Lengthy Island hospitals that confronted a strike risk have additionally struck offers, in keeping with the union. “Northwell/ Plainview Hospital, Syosset and Huntington nurses signed tentative agreements on new contracts yesterday that shield secure affected person care,” it mentioned in an announcement Saturday.
The strike would start at a few of the remaining hospitals at 6:00 AM Monday.
