Federation of Nurses/UFT Approve Contract with NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

Members of the Federation of Nurses/UFT last week ratified a new contract that raises nurses' salaries at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn by a compounded 15.8 percent and requires the hospital to immediately work to hire 100 additional nurses to address chronic understaffing. With the agreement, the nurses called off a potential strike slated to start Saturday, March 1.

"The contract gives our nurses the respect they deserve by raising salaries and requiring NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn to hire the nurses they need to safely staff their hospital," said Anne Goldman, head of the Federation of Nurses/UFT, which represents over 1,000 nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. "This opens the door to improving staffing, recruitment and retention and provides the economic equity our nurses have long deserved." Read more here.