Nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals in New York City reached a tentative agreement with their employers on Feb. 9 to end a monthlong strike.

Based on the agreement, Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Mount Sinai Morningside and West will improve safe staffing levels, better secure the workplace, and increase nurses’ benefits, according to a New York State Nurses Association statement.

Nurses’ salaries will increase by more than 12 percent over a three-year contract.

This increase would raise the annual average wage from $162,000 to more than $181,000 by the third year of the contract.

Dr. Brendan G. Carr, CEO of Mt. Sinai Health System, confirmed the tentative settlement in a Feb. 9 statement.

“After a long and difficult negotiation, this morning we agreed to terms with the New York State Nursing Association,” Carr wrote. “We have a tentative agreement in place on all three campuses, and I hope our nurses will be coming back to work in the very near future.”

Bargaining between the union and the hospitals began in September 2025 but did not produce a resolution.

On Jan. 12, nearly 15,000 New York City nurses launched a strike within the Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian systems, demanding safer staffing levels, improved healthcare benefits, and better protections against workplace violence.

Progress came after an offer from the employers in late January.

“Today we made a fair, reasonable, and responsible economic proposal that provides annual wage increases and continues generous healthcare and pension benefits, under an economic structure that works for all of the parties and the safety-net hospitals that are tied to our economic terms,” Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian told The Epoch Times by email on Jan. 31.

In addition to the previous nurses’ demands, the new agreement included measures aimed at protecting immigrant and transgender patients and nurses.

Safeguarding against artificial intelligence was also added to the contracts for the first time.

More than 10,000 New York State Nurses Association members will vote on whether to accept the contracts from Feb. 9 to 11. If the tentative contract agreements are confirmed, nurses will return to work on Feb. 14, according to the association.

“Once [the union] shares the results of the ratification vote, assuming the new contract is approved, we’ll start the safe transition back to staffing with Mount Sinai’s nurses who were on strike,” Carr said.

Union President Nancy Hagans praised the tentative deal.

“Nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai systems are heading back to the bedside with our heads held high after winning fair tentative contracts that maintain enforceable safe staffing ratios, improve protections from workplace violence, and maintain health benefits with no additional out-of-pocket costs for frontline nurses,” Hagans said in the statement.