A Partial End to the Nurses Strike
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYCN, Gauthomist Newsroom |
| 0:16.0 | sitting in for Brian today. For two of the three hospital systems where New York City nurses have been on strike, |
| 0:22.5 | one of the largest strikes nurses walkouts in the city's history, there's now a deal. Nurses at |
| 0:28.3 | Mount Sinai and Montefiore have voted to approve new three-year contracts ending the strike |
| 0:34.1 | in those systems. Those agreements include wage increases and new commitments |
| 0:39.1 | around staffing and safety, and they bring thousands of nurses back to work after weeks on the |
| 0:44.4 | picket line. But the strike is not over. Nurses at New York Presbyterian have reached a tentative |
| 0:49.8 | agreement, meaning the walkout continues at New York Presbyterian, had rejected, excuse me, I'm going |
| 0:56.3 | to take that all over again. The strike is not over because nurses at New York Presbyterian have |
| 1:00.8 | rejected a tentative agreement, meaning the walkout continues at New York Presbyterian, Columbia, |
| 1:06.1 | Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, and Allen Hospital. So now the questions are why. Some nurses voted yes. |
| 1:12.5 | Others voted no. What exactly is in these contracts and whether New York Presbyterian nurses |
| 1:17.4 | can win a better deal or risk losing momentum as other nurses head back inside. |
| 1:23.3 | Joining us again is Nancy Hagan's president of the New York State Nurses Association and a working nurse who has been out on the pick-in line throughout the strike. |
| 1:31.3 | Hey, Nancy, welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:34.3 | Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 1:36.6 | And, you know, forgive me for bungling. |
| 1:39.5 | I wanted to make sure we made it very clear. |
| 1:41.6 | Some of the nurses are back. |
| 1:43.2 | Some of the nurses are not. And listeners, |
| 1:45.8 | we want to hear from you. Help us report this story. If you're a nurse at Mount Sinai or Montefiore |
| 1:51.3 | who voted to ratify the deal, tell us why you voted yes. Or if you're a nurse at New York |
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