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January 15, 2026

District Council 37 backs NYSNA in striking to protect patient and nurse safety and maintain workers’ hard-won health benefits

NEW YORK— Now in its fourth day, nurses represented by NYSNA from Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York-Presbyterian—among the wealthiest hospitals for care in New York City—are on strike. 15,000 NYSNA nurses are on the picket lines in the biggest nurses’ strike in New York history to demand that these hospitals provide adequate safety for patients and the frontline nurses who treat them.

These nurses also demand that hospital management maintain the health benefits for the 44,000 NYSNA members and their families in the City and Long Island. It is inconceivable that managers at these health institutions would threaten cutbacks in health benefits for their frontline staff and ignore demands to provide patient and nurse safety.

District Council 37 demands that management cease their intimidation tactics against striking nurses and patient advocates and immediately come to the negotiating table to work out a fair contract for nurses, frontline workers who devote their lives to providing the best care for their patients.