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Nancy Hagans

Nancy Hagans

President, New York State Nurses Association

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Notable Quotes

Hospital management refuses to address our most important issues—patient and nurse safety.

If the poorest hospitals in our city can do the right thing, so can rich hospitals like Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Mount Sinai management unlawfully terminated three labor and delivery nurses via voicemail on the eve of the largest nurse strike in history and while bargaining was still happening.

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15,000 nurses walk out in NYC's largest healthcare strike

Force in Play

Leading the strike negotiations

Nearly 15,000 nurses walked off the job at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian on January 12, 2026—the largest nurses' strike in New York City history. The walkout came three years after nurses at two of those same hospital systems won enforceable staffing ratios through a three-day strike. Now the hospitals want to roll those standards back, while also seeking to cut nurses' healthcare benefits.

Updated Feb 5