Regardless of marathon and persevering with negotiations, 8,700 nurses at three hospitals in New York Metropolis are nonetheless on observe to stroll off the job Monday morning with no new contract.
The New York Nurses Affiliation (NYSNA) charged Sunday that the doubtless historic strike affecting Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, and Montefiore Bronx is within the fingers of hospital bosses and never medical employees someday earlier than nurses are set to stroll out of emergency rooms.
“It’s really up to the bosses, it’s not up to us. As we said in the beginning: We are here to negotiate; we are here to negotiate in good faith to make sure that the nurses have enough resources to care for the patients. We are at the table right now,” NYSNA President Nancy Hagans stated throughout a Jan. 8 press name. “It’s not up for the nurses, it’s up to the bosses to sit there and come up with a fair contract so our nurses can continue to care for our patients.”
Because the NYSNA delivered a strike discover to eight services on Dec. 30, 2022, the union has made offers with 5 medical facilities, together with Brooklyn Hospital, BronxCare Well being System and Flushing Hospital on Jan. 6.
In response to Hagans, negotiations have been troublesome; though NewYork Presbyterian’s contract, for example, was handed with a 57% nurses vote, she famous that different hospitals like Mount Sinai are nonetheless unable to see eye-to-eye a lot, with administration representatives strolling away from the bargaining desk on Thursday.
NYSNA urged talks to proceed in good religion, which can now see Mount Sinai return to the desk this afternoon. Whereas there isn’t a set deadline for the contract and offers might be laid out properly into the early hours of the morning, the NYSNA state nurses will strike at 6 a.m. on Jan. 9 if an settlement just isn’t established.
“We have said: always our number one issue is a crisis of staffing, chronic understaffing that harms patient care. Safe staffing is about having enough nurses to deliver safe care, quality care to every patient. It is an issue that our employers have ignored, made excuses about and fought against us every time,” Hagans stated. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Our bosses created the understaffing crisis by failing to hire and retain enough nurses out of facilities, leaving the rest of us to work short staffed.”
Hagans confused nurses haven’t taken the choice to strike flippantly. Printed studies point out that Mount Sinai has been eradicating infants from their natal care models, and canceling scheduled surgical procedures, in preparation for a doable strike.
amNewYork Metro has reached out to Mount Sinai for remark and is awaiting their response.