Nurses astatine Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division clasp an "urgent assemblage talk out" and property league successful beforehand of the hospital, demanding N95s and different captious idiosyncratic protective instrumentality to grip the COVID-19 outbreak, connected April 2, 2020, successful New York. Thousands of nurses successful New York City notified 8 hospitals, including Montefiore, connected Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, that they volition spell connected onslaught successful 10 days unless declaration agreements are reached. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Bebeto Matthews]
NEW YORK (AP) — A imaginable onslaught by thousands of New York City nurses loomed Monday adjacent arsenic nurses astatine 1 infirmary reached a tentative statement hours earlier their declaration was acceptable to expire.
The pact affecting 4,000 nurses astatine NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital awaits ratification.
Contract talks betwixt nurses and 7 different hospitals volition resume this week to avert a onslaught by 12,000 different nurses arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent Monday, Jan. 9. Their contracts expired Tuesday.
“Striking is ever a past resort, but nurses accidental they are prepared to onslaught if infirmary medication gives them nary different enactment to support their patients and their practice,” the New York State Nurses Association said successful a connection implicit the weekend.
The national issued a 10-day announcement that it intends to onslaught if an statement isn’t reached. The beforehand announcement is required by instrumentality to springiness hospitals to put for alternate staffing.
The nurses person been calling for what they described arsenic harmless staffing levels, just wages, nary cuts to their wellness coverage, and wellness and information protections successful airy of the “tripledemic” of COVID-19, RSV and flu.
They besides privation assemblage benefits specified arsenic backing programs to enlistee and bid nurses from wrong the communities they serve.
The 7 hospitals wherever the nurses could onslaught see Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Maimonides, BronxCare, Richmond University Medical Center, and Flushing Hospital Medical Center.
Representatives of respective hospitals said Friday they remained hopeful declaration agreements volition beryllium reached earlier a onslaught but said they are prepared to bring successful extracurricular workers arsenic a precaution arsenic they look precocious diligent measurement due to the fact that of the triple wellness threats.
The national congratulated its members astatine NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital connected reaching a tentative statement connected what it called “a just contract” hours earlier their declaration expired.
The infirmary said it was pleased to person reached a tentative agreement.
“With this agreement, which is inactive taxable to ratification by the nurses, we are making a important concern successful our outstanding nursing squad and ensuring that we tin proceed to present the highest level of attraction to our patients,” the infirmary said successful a statement.
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