Nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai to start returning to work Saturday morning

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- More than 10,000 nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals will start returning to work Saturday morning, one month after walking off the job in what's become the New York City's largest and longest nurses strike.

Nurses at the two hospital systems voted to ratify new contracts earlier this week.

The new three-year contracts include improved staffing standards, and protections against workplace violence.

The agreement represents a major step forward, but the strike continues for the more than 4,200 nurses who work at NewYork-Presbyterian after they voted against a tentative agreement.

"Beginning late yesterday (2/10), NYSNA brought the mediators' comprehensive proposal to a vote with the NewYork-Presbyterian nurses represented by NYSNA. The voting has concluded, and we are disappointed that our nurses did not ratify the mediators' proposal, which we had accepted on 2/8, and NYSNA leadership endorsed," NewYork-Presbyterian said in a statement.



Some nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian had protested the vote, saying they were being pressure by the union to vote "yes" on a contract that the local negotiating team rejected.



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