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Join CWA to support striking NYSNA nurses - Tues Feb 10 at 4pm

06 Feb, 2026

15,000 NYSNA nurses are in their fourth week on strike, the biggest nurses strike in NYC history, in one of the coldest winters in memory. They've shown tremendous courage and fortitude, and have been clear they're not backing down until the hospitals agree to a contract that protects nurses' and patients' safety. Safe staffing levels and protections from workplace violence are top priorities at the bargaining table. See a more detailed update from NYSNA below.

Join CWA Local 1101 at the NYSNA picket line on Tues, Feb 10 at 4pm. Mt Sinai West, 1000 Tenth Avenue ( W 59 St).

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NYSNA release Feb 3, 2026

New York, NY — On Feb. 2, NYSNA nurses from Montefiore, Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, and NewYork-Presbyterian were at the bargaining table at the Javits Center. Striking nurses continued picketing at all hospital locations, and nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center held a speak-out to demand hospital executives pay for and reinstate their health benefits. Assembly Member Phara Souffrant-Forest, State Senator Jabari Brisport, New York City Council Hospitals Chair Mercedes Narcisse, and Council Member Lincoln Restler joined the nurses in Brooklyn.

Nurses who gathered at the Javits Center received revised proposals from hospital management in the afternoon and late in the evening. The proposals failed to address safe staffing — one of nurses’ key demands and a sticking point in negotiations. NewYork-Presbyterian continues to propose safe staffing enforcement provisions that are weaker than those at every other NYSNA New York City hospital. All hospitals except NewYork-Presbyterian made inadequate counter proposals on workplace violence. NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the richest hospitals in New York City and state, did not even make counter-proposals on workplace violence and other contract issues. Although nurses significantly revised and moderated our proposals to expedite bargaining, the hospitals returned proposals that were inadequate and failed to offer a clear path to return nurses to work.

Hospitals have claimed that they are ready to bring back the nurses, even as they continue to pay expensive temporary replacement nurses as much as $10,000 per week. Mount Sinai recently advertised for new temp contract assignments starting in mid-February. Before the strike even began, hospitals had already spent more than $100 million on temporary traveler nurses, who don't know New York City patients or communities.

At the same time, hospitals are threatening to not return nurses to work immediately, even after settling fair contracts. They have suggested they will prioritize respecting and extending their contracts with replacement workers instead of bringing back striking nurses. NYSNA nurses emphasize that the strike will not be over until all members return to work.

NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, BSN, CCRN, said, “The same greedy hospital executives that have left nearly 15,000 frontline nurse heroes outside in the bitter cold for more than three weeks now insult us with unserious proposals that fail to address our key issues: safe staffing and protections from workplace violence. NYSNA nurses have done everything possible to settle fair contracts. We consolidated and revised our proposals to focus on our key issues and moved our wage proposal in the hope of coming to a fair agreement. But, instead of bargaining in good faith, the bosses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian presented proposals today that show their disregard and disrespect for nurses and the patients we care for.”

Nurses intend to continue bargaining until they settle fair contracts that protect patient and nurse safety and bring the nurses back to work immediately and unconditionally.

Mt Sinai Morningside picket line