Nurses strike avoided at Brooklyn safety-net hospitals as unions, execs reach tentative agreements * Brooklyn Paper

"Our safety-net hospitals are leading the way in settling fair union contracts that protect New York City patients and nurses. If the poorest hospitals in our city can do the right thing, so can rich hospitals like Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian,"

"Instead, these wealthy hospitals seem determined to force frontline nurses out on strike. We still have four days to avert a strike in New York City, and we hope that management will come to their senses and put patients before profits."

"This is why we are committed to winning workplace violence protections in our contracts. Our poorest safety-net hospitals have already agreed to strengthen protections from workplace violence,"

Union nurses at multiple Brooklyn hospitals rescinded strike notices after reaching tentative agreements or receiving commitments from hospital executives. Tentative agreements involve Maimonides Medical Center, One Brooklyn Health’s Interfaith and Kingsbrook Jewish, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, and Richmond University Medical Center; Wyckoff Heights and The Brooklyn Hospital Center also pulled strike notices after concessions. Promised contract terms include improved staffing ratios, maintained health benefits, guaranteed wage increases, protections against workplace violence, pension maintenance, funding for healthcare benefits, and regulation of AI in patient care. NYSNA members at Maimonides and OBH will next vote on ratification.

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