"On Thursday and Friday, the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), the union representing the nearly 15,000 striking nurses, met with NewYork-Presbyterian and Mount Sinai Morningside and West, two of the three hospitals involved in the strike, in addition to Montefiore, to negotiate their demands with management. But the talks stalled yet again, putting the nurses back on the picket line throughout the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday weekend, as management returned to their offices."
"The nurses said they made significant revisions to their proposals at the bargaining table, but their bosses offered nothing in return. What we are demanding, we believe, is essential to providing care to New Yorkers, NYSNA said in a statement. It seems hospitals are furious about the safe staffing standards that nurses won three years ago and are willing to do anything to claw them back. What will it take for the city's wealthiest hospitals to start listening to nurses, patients, and the public?"
Nearly 15,000 nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association struck, and negotiations with NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, and Montefiore stalled. Talks on Thursday and Friday failed, sending nurses back to picket lines over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Nurses said they made significant revisions at the bargaining table but management offered nothing in return. NYSNA called safe-staffing standards essential and accused hospitals of trying to claw them back. Hospital management called the union's proposals unreasonable, said nurses' average annual compensation is $163,000 and total average compensation about $233,000, and said bargaining will continue through a mediator.
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