MANHATTAN — ROUGHLY 4,200 NURSES at NewYork-Presbyterian reached a tentative agreement with management on Thursday after nearly a month and a half-long strike by members of the New York State Nurses Association. Members will vote on contract ratification this weekend and could return to work next week, NYSNA said in a statement. Key provisions include safe staffing standards, with increases in the number of nurses; protection of nurses’ healthcare benefits; safeguarding from workplace violence; protection of immigrant nurses and patients; safeguards against artificial intelligence; a salary increase of 12% over the life of the 3-year contract and more.
NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said the hospital system’s management had been trying to cut corners, and that the nurses’ win would improve their ability to care for patients. “For a month and a half, through some of the harshest weather this city has seen in years, nurses at NYP showed this city that they won’t make any compromises to patient care,” she said in a statement.
NYP nurses earlier this month voted down a tentative agreement backed by union leadership despite it having been rejected by the NYP nurses executive committee, and over 1,500 of the hospital’s nurses signed a petition demanding an investigation, according to THE CITY. “The [executive committee] does not endorse this proposal. NYSNA went over our heads to force a ratification vote,” NYP nurses had posted on Instagram…