Nurse Strike Ends at Two Major NYC Hospitals After Deal Reached

Nurses at two major New York City hospitals are going back to work after ending a 3-day strike and agreeing to a new contract that will guarantee both higher staffing levels and wages.

Nurses at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx will return to the hospitals on Thursday at 7 a.m.

“Mount Sinai nurses will walk back into the hospital this morning at 7 a.m. after winning wall-to-wall safe staffing ratios for all inpatient units with firm enforcement so that there will always be enough nurses at the bedside to ...