NEW YORK — The infuriated head of the state nurses union unloaded Saturday on Mount Sinai Hospital officials for its decision to stop negotiations as a strike deadline with a promised walkout loomed.
“We are outraged by these tactics,” said New York State Nurses Association President Nancy Hagans. “These employers have engaged in unfair and unlawful behavior trying to silence our nurses.”
Mount Sinai, along with Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Morningside and West, remain the last hospitals without a deal as union officials warned of a 6 a.m. Monday walkout of 8,700 nurses. Only Mount Sinai has halted negotiations as the clock ticks toward a walkout, said Hagans — a charge the hospital disputed.
