New York nurses union wins 12% raise, AI safeguards in a tentative deal to end monthlong strike |
New York nurses union wins 12% raise, AI safeguards in a tentative deal to end monthlong strike
New York City’s largest nursing strike in decades may be on the verge of ending after a union representing more than 4,000 nurses in the NewYork-Presbyterian hospital system reached a tentative contract agreement with management early Friday.
The nurses’ union, the New York State Nurses Association, and NewYork-Presbyterian both said their negotiators have reached a tentative deal. The union said provisions include raises topping 12% over three years, staffing improvements and, for the first time, safeguards on the use of artificial intelligence.
Union members were to vote Friday and Saturday on the proposed contract. If it’s ratified, the nurses will return to work next week at the last of three major private hospital systems hit by the more than monthlong walkout.
The roughly 4,200 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian had picketed during bitterly cold temperatures in what their union said was the largest and longest nurse walkout in the........