NYC Nurses Strike Enters Fourth Day as Negotiations Resume with Mediator

Nurses Strike Continues

• 🏥 Nearly 15,000 nurses across three major New York City hospital networks, including Mount Sinai, New York Presbyterian, and Montafur, are on strike for a fourth day.
• ✊ Nurses are demanding protection from workplace violence, citing incidents of being kicked, spit on, pushed, punched, and sexually assaulted.
• ⚠️ They also highlight issues of unsafe staffing levels, with nurses caring for 15 to 20 patients at a time in overcrowded ERs.

Contract Negotiations and Hospital Response

• 🤝 The nurses union and hospital executives are set to resume bargaining sessions on Thursday evening and Friday, with the assistance of a mediator.
• 💰 Mount Sinai alleges the union's proposals would cost $1.6 billion over three years, significantly increasing average nurse pay.
• 🗣️ Mount Sinai's CEO claims the union has been harassing and intimidating nurses who have returned to work.

Union and Public Support

• 📢 Other unions have joined the nurses in solidarity, stating that attacking the nurses is an attack on all of them.
• 🏥 Nurses are urging the hospitals to prioritize patients before profits.