Nurses at Mount Sinai Morningside and West reach tentative agreement as more than 7,000 nurses still due to strike - CNN

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Mount Sinai Morningside and West infirmary reached a tentative statement with the authorities nursing national connected a caller declaration Sunday, avoiding a onslaught Monday morning, according to a quality merchandise from the union.

Nurses astatine 2 different country hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Bronx, are inactive owed to onslaught aft not reaching agreements.

Both hospitals are backmost astatine the bargaining array with New York State Nurses Association nurses contiguous – if a tentative statement is not reached, past astir 3,625 nurses astatine Mount Sinai and astir 3,500 nurses astatine Montefiore Bronx volition onslaught astatine 6 a.m. Monday. The national said during a quality league Sunday greeting that negotiations could spell into the aboriginal morning.

The caller tentative statement astatine Morningside and West brings the anticipated fig of nurses to onslaught down from 8,700 to astir 7,125. The tentative statement improves staffing, protects benefits and increases salaries implicit 3 years.

That brings 7 of the 12 New York hospitals successful negotiations to scope tentative agreements oregon caller contracts.

“The clip is present to settee just contracts that assistance nurses present the attraction that each New Yorkers deserve. We are warring to amended diligent attraction and volition bash immoderate it takes to win,” NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said successful a connection Sunday.

New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital is continuing to determination infants retired of intensive attraction units to different country hospitals, is diverting ambulances to different facilities and postponing elective surgeries and bosom surgeries up of a planned nursing onslaught Monday.

In a connection precocious Saturday, the infirmary said it has been negotiating “in bully faith” with the nursing national connected a caller contract. Mount Sinai has agreed to conscionable with NYSNA nurses aft walking retired connected a bargaining league Thursday, the national said Sunday.

A Mount Sinai spokesperson told CNN connected Saturday the infirmary strategy is actively bargaining with the Mount Sinai Morningside and West campuses nether abstracted national agreements.

But if agreements aren’t reached astatine respective New York City country hospitals, thousands of nurses volition onslaught connected Monday morning.

The infirmary said Sunday its existent wage connection “is identical” to ratified agreements astatine NewYork-Presbyterian and Maimonides – and would summation a Mount Sinai nurse’s basal wage by 19.1 percent implicit 3 years.

“But NYSNA’s inconsistent bargaining, unwillingness to judge this offer, and insistence connected moving guardant with a onslaught has near america nary prime but to instrumentality important actions to attraction for our patients,” the infirmary connection said.

Seven neonatal intensive attraction portion infants were safely transferred Saturday to spouse hospitals successful New York City, a infirmary spokesperson told CNN connected Sunday. Another six volition beryllium transferred Sunday from the NICUs astatine Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West, the spokesperson said.

“In addition, we person transferred adjacent to 100 patients from the affected hospitals – The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside – to unaffected hospitals wrong the Mount Sinai strategy and spouse hospitals successful NYC and we proceed to safely discharge patients who were docket to spell home.” All elective surgeries person been postponed, the spokesperson said.

The NYSNA deed backmost Saturday astatine comments from Mount Sinai, which said Friday it was transferring infants successful its neonatal intensive attraction units to different country hospitals due to the fact that of the onslaught notice, adding the infirmary was dismayed by the union’s “reckless” actions.

“As a labour and transportation caregiver who helps mothers to bring babies into this world, I find it outrageous that Mount Sinai would compromise attraction for our NICU babies successful immoderate way. We already person NICU nurses caring for doubly arsenic galore sick babies arsenic they should,” Matt Allen, the union’s determination director, said.

“It’s unconscionable that Mount Sinai refuses to code unsafe staffing successful our NICU and different units of the infirmary but is present stirring fears astir our NICU babies successful declaration negotiations,” helium added.

In a connection Saturday, the NYSNA said nurses astatine BronxCare and The Brooklyn Hospital Center reached tentative agreements that volition amended harmless staffing levels and enforcement, summation wages by 7%, 6%, and 5% annually during their three-year contract, and clasp their healthcare benefits.

On Saturday, nurses astatine NewYork-Presbyterian announced they had agreed to ratify their deal, but it was a adjacent ballot – 57% nurses voted yes and 43% were against.

“Voting connected whether to ratify a declaration is simply a cardinal constituent of national democracy. Just similar successful immoderate democracy, determination is seldom 100 percent consensus,” Hagans said successful a statement.