Nancy Hagans

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15,000 nurses walk out in NYC's largest healthcare strike

Leading the strike negotiations

Nearly 15,000 nurses walked off the job at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian on January 12, 2026—the largest nurses' strike in New York City history. The walkout came three years after nurses at two of those same hospital systems won enforceable staffing ratios through a three-day strike. Now the hospitals want to roll those standards back, while also seeking to cut nurses' healthcare benefits.

Updated May 21

Notable Quotes

Hospital management refuses to address our most important issues—patient and nurse safety.

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If the poorest hospitals in our city can do the right thing, so can rich hospitals like Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian.

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Mount Sinai management unlawfully terminated three labor and delivery nurses via voicemail on the eve of the largest nurse strike in history and while bargaining was still happening.

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Nurses overcame a major hurdle in protecting their healthcare benefits after hospitals threatened to cut care. Our fight is not over yet—safe staffing and protections from workplace violence remain our top priorities.

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Nurses will not tolerate union busting and will not back down on our demands for safe staffing and protections from workplace violence.

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Unfortunately, greedy hospital executives have decided to put profits above safe patient care and force nurses out on strike when we would rather be at the bedsides of our patients.

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