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By Kenny Stancil<\/strong><\/p>\n More than 7,000 unionized nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals began a strike on Monday morning “for fair contracts that improve patient care.”<\/p>\n “Nurses don’t want to strike,” the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) said<\/a> late Sunday in a statement. “Bosses have pushed us to strike by refusing to seriously consider our proposals to address the desperate crisis of unsafe staffing that harms our patients.”<\/p>\n More than 3,600 nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital in Harlem and roughly 3,500 of their counterparts at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx walked off the job on Monday at 6:00 am ET after management declined to approve a new contract with increased staffing levels, improved safety measures, and better pay and healthcare benefits.<\/p>\n The hospitals’ overnight intransigence came after negotiations at several other New York City hospitals\u00a0yielded<\/a>\u00a0tentative agreements prior to the strike start date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Find the full coverage here.<\/p>\n By Kenny Stancil<\/strong><\/p>\n More than 7,000 unionized nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals began a strike on Monday morning “for fair contracts that improve patient care.”<\/p>\n “Nurses don’t want to strike,” the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) said<\/a> late Sunday in a statement.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n