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NYSNA nurses took their message for fair contracts directly to the businesses of hospital board members! They handed out flyers to workers and community members to make sure they hear nurses' concerns! It's time hospital execs put patients over profits and deliver fair contracts now!

This is what solidarity looks like! Thank you to all the Bronx small businesses who are supporting Montefiore nurses bargaining for a fair contract!

Photos by NP Sasha Gavilanes from Montefiore Bronx.

For patients who have known their nurses for years, they know nurses are the difference in care. They’re calling on hospitals to negotiate a fair contract. Nurses want nothing more than to return back and deliver care.

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Healthcare workers united! CIR/SEIU doctors and residents stood shoulder to shoulder with nurses on the picket line yesterday and will be back again today at 6pm. Safe staffing and fair contracts mean better care for everyone. #UnionStrong

Photos taken by Romulo Matibag Jr., IG: @romrnnyc

The latest from NY Magazine shares what NYSNA nurses have known all along – travel nurses can't replace the care that NYC staff nurses provide. Hospitals must settle fair contracts with their dedicated nurses!

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nurses-strike-nyc-hospital-safe-union.html

NYC nurses are holding strong for patient and nurse safety on Day 9! Today, nurses at Mount Sinai West were joined by healthcare justice allies Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. Together, we're calling out corporate hospital greed and speaking out for safe staffing.

Love the labor solidarity on the picket line! Shout out to DC37 Executive Director Henry Garrido and DC 37 members showing up strong with NYSNA nurses at NYP Allen and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Rain, snow or shine! Nurses are holding down the line!

Striking NYC nurses continued their MLK weekend actions by taking their message from the picket lines to the home of Montefiore CEO, Dr. Ozuah, demanding "Fair Contract Now!"

24 Years! 🎉 Americans have ranked nurses as the most trusted profession!

This honor goes to all our members for their commitment to caring and advocating for our patients and our communities! Management can try to paint nurses as villains, but everyone knows who the real heroes are!

NYSNA nurses are always ready and willing to come to the bargaining table. We urge hospital executives to do the same! #NYCNurseStrike

NYSNA nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West were back at the table for the first time since the strike began with management and mediators today. Montefiore Health System did not answer the mediator's call to meet.

When the weather gets cold, we turn up the heat on the picket line! Last night, we saw little progress at negotiations at NewYork-Presbyterian. Nurses put forward a revised set of proposals that hospital executives rejected without offering a counter proposal.

Today at Mount Sinai Morningside, nurses gave harrowing testimony about the violent conditions they experience at work—often exacerbated by unsafe staffing levels.

If safety-net hospitals can deliver fair contracts, so can Montefiore Health System, Mount Sinai NYC, and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Powerful message from Nataki Jarrett, RN at Mount Sinai West.

"To every nurse standing here today: Your voice matters. Your courage and your story matter. We became nurses because we care."

One day longer, one day stronger! Management can paint nurses as villains all they want, but everyone knows who the real heroes are!

It's time for management to put patients over profits and negotiate fair contracts now! #NYCNurseStrike

These nurses were fired by Mount Sinai because they were ready to join the strike line.

Union busting won't silence us.

Nurses are strong. Nurses are united! Join us on the strike line in solidarity!

Want to help out NYC's nurse heroes on the picket line? Check out four ways you can support nurses preparing to strike! 

Montefiore says "Doing Better," but how can they do better when patients are stuck in an overcrowded ED and management attempts to roll back staffing standards won in 2023? Make it make sense, Montefiore.

Day 2 of #NYCNurseStrike and the collective energy and nurse power continues! From Mount Sinai West all the way up to Montefiore Bronx, nurses chanted and danced through the picket line demanding a fair contract. We're back tomorrow at 7am! #PatientsOverProfits

Nurses are out in force on Day 2 of the #NYCNurseStrike! shout out to all the nurses on this picket line early morning! #WhenWeFightWeWin

Day 1 of #NYCNurseStrike! Thousands of nurses walked the picket line in the largest nurses strike in NYC history.

Thank you to everyone who joined us to demand fair contracts with the safe staffing, healthcare benefits, and real workplace protections for nurses and patients.

Our strike begins today! Show your support for nurses fighting for safe staffing, healthcare benefits and a fair contract!

#NYCNurseStrike #SafeStaffingSavesLives #PatientsOverProfits

We want to be absolutely clear: If you are sick, please do not delay getting medical care, regardless of whether we are on strike. We invite you to come join us on the strike line after you've gotten the care you need. We are out here so we can provide better patient care to you!

Nearly 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are on strike today because greedy hospital management have given frontline nurses no other choice.

Workplace Violence is Pushing New York Nurses to the Brink of Striking - Documented More than 16,000 nurses at five NYC hospitals could walk off the job next week as management continues to push cuts to employee care and staffing.

Mount Sinai nurses spoke to DocumentedNY to share their experience facing workplace violence and retaliation after speaking out for workplace safety.

Nurses don't want to strike, but we're ready to do whatever it takes to win a fair contract.

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Patient safety is nurses' #1 concern.

It’s irresponsible for hospitals to force nurses on strike and rely on inadequate contingency plans to care for patients.

We don't want replacement nurses here, we want a fair contract now!

That leaves NYC’s wealthiest hospitals as the outliers who have refused to settle fair contracts. Jan. 12 strike plans and negotiations continue at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian.

BronxCare nurses have also made major progress at the table! Nurses withdrew their strike notice based on tentative agreements reached on healthcare, nurse staffing and wages.

Latest tentative agreement highlights include:
✅ improve safe staffing
✅ fully fund health benefits
✅ protect nurses from workplace violence
✅ guarantee wage increases equitable with what nurses at the wealthy academic hospitals win

When we fight, we win! Yesterday, NYSNA nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center and Wyckoff Heights Medical Center have reached full tentative agreements.