Tuesday is the second day of the largest nurse strike in New York City history with 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, and NewYork-Presbyterian who are on strike demanding hospitals take action to protect patient and nurse safety, including agreeing ...

City Council Member and Health ... with the nearly 16,000 nurses who are going on strike to demand real protections from workplace violence, truly safe staffing levels, fair health benefits, and good wages....

1 day ago - The 15,000 nurses on strike are asking for pay hikes, improved staffing levels, full health care coverage and pensions, and workplace protections against violence.

4 days ago - Mamdani also said nurses are not asking for millions, but for "pensions to be safeguarded, to be protected in their own workplace, and to receive the pay and health benefits they deserve."

Wednesday is the third day of the largest nurse strike in New York City history with nearly 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, and NewYork-Presbyterian who are on strike demanding hospitals take action to protect patient and nurse safety, including ...

4 hours ago - "We take care of everyone. People who are sick. People who have nobody else. So why not work with us?" nurse Colleen McCormack said.

18 hours ago - When nurses go on strike, it is easy to assume the conflict is about pay or contracts. In reality, strikes are almost always a last resort. They happen when nurses believe patient safety has been pushed to a breaking point.

15 hours ago - The union says nurses are striking over pay, staffing levels, fully funded health benefits and protections from workplace violence, as well as concerns about job security and the increasing use of artificial intelligence in health care.

15 hours ago - "If the safety net hospitals, all eight of them, could come to the table and say let's put patients before profits ... why can't the three richest hospitals in New York City come to the same agreement?" another nurse said. "This hospital makes a good profit off of its patients," Mount Sinai West nurse Michel Ng said.

4 days ago - Nearly 15,000 nurses in New York City went on strike today. Included in their list of demands - higher wages, protections from understaffing and tighter security due to recent attacks on hospitals.

2 hours ago - Montefiore and Mount Sinai nurses won contractual language after the nurses’ 2023 strike that set nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in each unit and mandated binding arbitration of understaffing allegations. That language has resulted in the two health systems paying millions of dollars for violations. Sheridan-Gonzalez said the hospitals are intent on rolling those protections back.

4 days ago - Others picketed at hospitals in the Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems, where a 2023 nursing strike fed off pandemic-era frustrations and led to a deal to boost staffing and pay. “And now, it’s how they’re treating us: They don’t want to give us a fair contract, and they don’t want to give us safe staffing, and now they’re trying to roll back on our benefits,” emergency department nurse Tristan Castillo said Monday outside Mount Sinai West. About 15,000 nurses are involved in the strike, according to their union, the New York State Nurses Association.

3 days ago - Staffing levels are a top issue for striking nurses. The union says nurses are dealing with unmanageable workloads and they also want improved security in hospitals, better pay, and fully-funded benefits.

At this time, the members of our nursing team who support these hospitals and practices are participating in a union-organized strike while contract negotiations continue. Our goal is to reach a fair and reasonable agreement with union leadership ...

5 hours ago - Nurses with three New York health systems have been on strike this week New York City's nurses strike could go on for weeks. Nurses are seeking better pay and protection from violence on the job, among other things. The hospital systems say ...

4 days ago - Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference as nurses from New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center strike outside the hospital on January 12, 2026. Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images · "They must bargain in good faith and they must arrive at a deal that is satisfactory to all, that allows the nurses who work in this city to live in this city," he said.

1 day ago - The union, which filed an unfair labor practice charge against Mount Sinai for terminating the three nurses on the eve of the strike, didn’t immediately respond.

9 hours ago - Kenneth E. Raske, the president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, said that the claims from the nurses’ union are “extraordinarily misleading.” He said that the hospital group had begun talks addressing workplace violence with unions representing health care workers. Last month, Gov.