After Weeks of Rancor, a Glimmer of Hope in N.Y.C. Nurses' Strike
Source: NYT
Nearly 15,000 workers have been off the job at some of New York’s top hospitals for three weeks, but signs of progress have emerged in negotiations.
By Joseph Goldstein
Feb. 2, 2026, 3:00 a.m. ET
The nurses accused the hospital bosses of cowardice, claiming that the executives were hiding in an office, afraid to show their faces. Both sides called each other liars.
That is how a key day of negotiations between the New York State nurses’ union and several major hospitals ended recently, as the largest nurses’ strike in New York City history dragged on.
SNIP: On Saturday, the 20th day of the strike, however, there were signs that the two sides were looking for a path forward. The hospitals and the union presented revised proposals and issued statements that sounded less antagonistic than before.
“We streamlined and revised our proposals in an effort to bring hospital executives back to the table to negotiate in good faith and settle fair contracts as quickly as possible,” the nurses’ union, the New York State Nurses Association, said in a statement on Saturday.
Not even a blast of winter weather could keep striking nurses off the picket line last week outside NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Hospital.Credit...Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York Times
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