headline: NYC nurses resume talks with Mount Sinai on 5th day of strike slug: 2026-01-16-nyc-nurses-resume-talks-with-mount-sinai-on-…

  • New York City nurses entered the fifth day of a major strike Friday with contract talks resuming at Mount Sinai hospitals at a mediator’s…
  • The walkout by roughly 15,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association — described as the city’s largest nursing strike in decade…
  • The New York State Nurses Association said its bargaining team resumed meetings Friday with counterparts at the three affected Mount Sina…
  • Brendan Carr, CEO of the Manhattan-based health care provider, said administrators are working to bring facilities to full capacity. Moun…

New York City nurses entered the fifth day of a major strike Friday with contract talks resuming at Mount Sinai hospitals at a mediator’s request, while overnight negotiations with NewYork-Presbyterian broke down with little progress after running past midnight.

The walkout by roughly 15,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association — described as the city’s largest nursing strike in decades — has left all three affected hospital systems relying on thousands of temporary nurses while the parties bargain separately over staffing levels.

Mount Sinai resumes talks

The New York State Nurses Association said its bargaining team resumed meetings Friday with counterparts at the three affected Mount Sinai hospitals at the request of a mediator.

Brendan Carr, CEO of the Manhattan-based health care provider, said administrators are working to bring facilities to full capacity. Mount Sinai has extended contracts for thousands of temporary nurses and is also bringing on more specialized staff to restore surgical volumes to normal, he said.

NewYork-Presbyterian talks stall

Nurses met Thursday night with NewYork-Presbyterian officials and a federal mediator in the first negotiations since the strike began Monday. The hours-long session ran past midnight and ended with very little progress, according to the union.

The union said it put forward revised proposals that hospital officials rejected without offering a counter-proposal. NewYork-Presbyterian said in a statement that discussions focused on the union’s concerns about staffing levels, but that it still views the union’s proposals as “unreasonable.”

“While we continue to be far apart, we are committed to bargaining in good faith,” NewYork-Presbyterian said. “We are committed to safe staffing and have the best staffing ratios in the city.”

Both sides said there are no further plans to meet.

Montefiore talks disputed

Negotiations with Montefiore, the third major hospital system affected, had not resumed as of Friday. The union said it had expected to sit down with Montefiore officials that day; the Bronx-based hospital disputed that claim, saying a meeting was never planned.

“NYSNA nurses respect the mediators and are ready and willing to come to the bargaining table when they call,” Nancy Hagans, the nurses’ union president, said in a statement. “We urge hospital executives to do the same.”

Dr. Philip Ozuah, president of Montefiore Einstein in the Bronx, one of the campuses affected by the strike, praised staff still on the job in a letter. “Another day, another miracle,” he wrote. “Many thanks to our amazing teams, our most complex and exacting mission continues…providing life-saving care.”

Hospitals say operations are stable

Each medical center is negotiating with the union independently, and not every hospital run by the three systems is affected by the strike. The affected hospitals have said their operations have been running smoothly since they hired thousands of temporary nurses to keep emergency rooms and other facilities open during the walkout.