Mount Sinai West/Mount Sinai Morningside
Negotiations Updates
October 13, 2025
During the third bargaining session with negotiators from Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West, NYSNA finally presented its complete economic proposals, including wages and hiring.
After caucusing, the Mount Sinai bargaining team came back and said that they will need to take time to estimate the total cost of the proposals, but that after the initial review, the three-year cost appeared to be exceptionally high. Mount Sinai negotiators asked NYSNA if they had conducted a cost analysis of their proposal or estimated the number of new nurses that would need to be hired to meet their demands, and NYSNA’s bargaining team said they had not.
The remainder of the session was spent with Mount Sinai negotiators asking questions about approximately 30 pages of proposals that NYSNA had presented at the previous session, on September 29, including proposals related to per diem employees, discipline history, and staffing.
Mount Sinai negotiators concluded the session by stating they would conduct a thorough cost analysis of the comprehensive economic proposals and come prepared to ask additional questions at the next bargaining session.
September 17, 2025
Negotiators for Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West had their first official bargaining session with NYSNA at Mount Sinai’s offices on 42nd Street. At NYSNA’s request, a large part of the conversation focused on future bargaining locations.
NYSNA requested that sessions take place within the hospital. Mount Sinai negotiators explained that it was preferable for meetings to take place at a location that was not also used for patient care. In previous years, bargaining has routinely taken place at Mount Sinai offices on 42nd Street, so our request was that we continue to meet at this location, which offers multiple large conference rooms to accommodate bargaining and breakout spaces. Mount Sinai also has offered to meet at NYSNA’s headquarters in addition to 42nd Street, as the parties have done in previous rounds of negotiation.
Additionally, there is no reliable space at the hospitals where negotiations can take place without interfering with patient, student, or employee activities. For example, there were systemwide annual mass casualty exercises taking place that required the use of conference room facilities in hospitals across the system today.
There was no final determination made on future locations. The Union declined to provide any contract proposals at this time. We are set to meet again on Monday, September 29, and Monday, October 13.
September 29, 2025
After two completed bargaining sessions, NYSNA has yet to present its core economic demands on wages to the Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West bargaining team.
While the union did present a range of other demands, it is delaying the process through its continued insistence that bargaining take place on hospital premises. Mount Sinai negotiators reiterated that this was not a viable option and again offered to meet at NYSNA’s headquarters or somewhere centrally located—as the parties have historically done.
The Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West bargaining team said it would begin to consider the proposals that were made, but underscored that it cannot respond fully until the union puts forward its complete economic proposals. NYSNA agreed to present these demands at our next meeting on Monday, October 13.
Both parties agreed to schedule additional bargaining sessions for the following dates: Monday, October 20; Friday, November 7; Friday, November 14; Friday, November 21; Monday, December 1; and Tuesday, December 9.
Supporting Our Nurses: Collective Bargaining Updates With NYSNA
The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West/Mount Sinai Morningside have begun contract negotiations with the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), the union that represents nurses at these hospitals. NYSNA’s contracts with these hospitals expire at the end of 2025.
Mount Sinai nurses play a vital role in delivering the high-quality, evidence-based care that our patients require, and we deeply value and respect their contributions.
Our goal is to reach agreements that continue to provide our valued nurses with competitive compensation and benefits, and ensure a safe, supportive working environment that enables them to provide exceptional care to all our patients across the diverse communities we serve.
About Negotiations
We have a long history of working successfully and collaboratively with NYSNA and we are confident that we will find common ground to reach contracts that remain fair, reasonable, and responsible. Bargaining may have its challenges and lively discussions along the way, but we are committed to negotiating in good faith at all times.
We deeply value our nurses and will work toward reaching new contracts that continue to recognize and reward their hard work and dedication. We will update this site regularly as negotiations progress, and we look forward to reaching agreement as soon as possible.