The union representing 15,000 putting metropolis nurses will meet with officers from three main hospital programs Monday to attempt to lastly finish the longest Massive Apple nursing walkout in historical past.
Either side — the New York State Nurse Affiliation and reps from Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai and Montefiore hospitals — stated they’ve issued revised proposals in a bid to cease the bitter 22-day standoff.
“We streamlined and revised our proposals in an effort to convey hospital executives again to the desk to barter in good religion and settle honest contracts as shortly as attainable that get nurses again to work to take care of New York Metropolis,” NYSNA stated in an announcement Saturday.
The three hospital programs issued a joint assertion suggesting progress.
“We made a good, cheap, and accountable financial proposal that gives annual wage will increase and continues beneficiant healthcare and pension advantages, underneath an financial construction that works for all the events and the safety-net hospitals which can be tied to our financial phrases,” the hospital reps stated.
“We are actually assessing the remainder of the union’s proposals in order that we will reply with a complete settlement provide to be able to finish the strike and convey our nurses again.”
The events have been battling over wage will increase and advantages, staffing ranges and security measures.
Hospital executives had complained that NYSNA was requesting exorbitant wage hikes over three years whereas medical services are dealing with cutbacks in federal funding.
The union for its half stated it was involved with “protected staffing ranges,” stopping office violence and “elevated wages to assist recruit and retain skilled nurses on the bedside.
“NYSNA nurses are critical about settling honest contracts and getting again to work delivering the standard care all New Yorkers deserve,” the union stated. “Now hospitals must get critical on the bargaining desk, finish this strike, settle honest contracts that instantly and unconditionally convey again the nurses who’re dedicated to take care of our communities, and at last present that they respect New York Metropolis’s frontline nurse heroes and our sufferers.”
The nurses makes a median of $160,000 a yr.
However the union complained that executives on the not-for-profit hospitals are in the meantime raking in outrageous multimillion-dollar compensation packages.
The hospitals even have paid an estimated $100 million on out-of-state journey nurses and different assets to assist preserve the services open and keep affected person care in the course of the strike, in keeping with the Larger New York Hospital Affiliation.
NYSNA initially requested raises of 30% over 3 years, which hospital executives rejected as outrageous.
The union just lately requested for smaller, 18% wage will increase for nurses on strike at three Mount Sinai hospitals — 7% within the first yr, 6% the next yr and 5% within the third and ultimate yr, officers stated.
A attainable path towards a settlement may be discovered on Lengthy Island.
Northwell’s Plainview, Syosset and Huntington hospital nurses signed tentative agreements final month on new contracts that included 5% annual will increase over three years and maintained good advantages and bolstered security requirements.
The putting metropolis nurses have been buffeted from robust political assist on the picket strains, together with visits from lefties Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
