Strike called off after agreement reached between nurses, NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn
The contract requires the hospital to immediately work to hire 100 additional nurses to address chronic understaffing.
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An agreement has been reached between nurses and NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn after they were set to strike tomorrow.
Members of the Federation of Nurses ratified a new contract Thursday night that raises nurses salaries at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn by a compounded 15.8%.
The contract requires the hospital to immediately work to hire 100 additional nurses to address chronic understaffing.
With the agreement, the nurses called off a potential strike slated to start Saturday, March 1.
"The contract gives our nurses the respect they deserve by raising salaries and requiring NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn to hire the nurses they need to safely staff their hospital," said Anne Goldman, head of the Federation of Nurses/ UFT, which represents over 1,000 nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. "This opens the door to improving staffing, recruitment and retention and provides the economic equity our nurses have long deserved."
The two-year agreement provides a 9.25% wage increase starting tomorrow and an increase of 6% effective March 1. It also provides increases to staff nurses' base pay to $125,282 by the end of the contract.
NYU Langone Health released a statement saying:
"The UFT has informed us that their members have voted to ratify a two-year contract with NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn and the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Health. The contract, which follows several months of negotiations between the hospital and the union, will support our nurses as they continue to drive exceptional patient care and the best outcomes for all of our patients."
