Federation of Nurses/UFT Files Notification of Potential Strike at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

The Federation of Nurses/UFT on Tuesday sent a 10-day strike notification to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. Nurses' contract with NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn ends at midnight on Friday, Feb. 28.

"The hospital has put patients and nurses at risk with its chronic understaffing," said Anne Goldman, head of the Federation of Nurses/UFT, which represents roughly 1,000 nurses at NYU Langone Hospital- Brooklyn and 16,000 nurses across New York State.

"Hospital management has shown it doesn't care about patients. It is the nurses who are advocating for what patients need - the correct number of nurses, properly trained, with the right equipment. That is what we are demanding in our contract. It is time for NYU Langone to put patients before profits," Goldman said. Nurses at NYU's Brooklyn hospital documented over 8,000 cases of short staffing in the past 36 months. Each alleges a violation of nurse-to-patient ratios, set by state law and by the nurses' own contract with NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. Read more fromFederation of Nurses/UFT, Gothamist and ABC 7.