After more than a year of good-faith negotiations, we are pleased to report that Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) have reached a tentative agreement on a collective bargaining agreement for our nurse practitioners (NPs).

NYSNA’s NP membership must vote to ratify the contract for it to take effect. The union will schedule a ratification vote shortly. SIUH leadership is unable to disclose the details until the NYSNA NP membership ratifies the agreement.

We believe the proposed collective bargaining agreement is fair for our NPs and will ensure the shared continued commitment to providing our patients and the community safe, quality health care. We are also hopeful that we will be able to carry over this positive momentum into our ongoing negotiations with SIUH’s nurses.

Thank you for your patience and support throughout the negotiation process. Your service and dedication are greatly appreciated.

Yesterday, Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) met virtually with the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) for our 24th negotiation session.

We once again made significant progress, reaching conceptual agreements on nearly all of the outstanding economic issues. Although SIUH and NYSNA worked collaboratively late into the night in hopes of finalizing your new collective bargaining agreement, there remain a few administrative and procedural details – specifically related to converting your current paid time off into vacation and personal time banks – that still need to be sorted out. We are optimistic both parties will be able to meet virtually in the coming days to work through those remaining issues.

Yesterday, Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) met virtually for our 23rd negotiation session.

With the help of a private mediator, we again had one of our most productive sessions to date. SIUH and NYSNA made tremendous progress and concluded the day with agreements in principle on many of the outstanding economic issues.

There are still several significant economic topics left to be resolved, including wages. However, if yesterday’s positive momentum continues at our next mediated session on June 7, we’re optomistic we will be able to finalize your new collective bargaining agreement sooner rather than later.

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Yesterday, Staten Island University Hospital met virtually with the New York State Nurses Association for our 22nd negotiation session. 

We continued to move progressively in our bargaining, ultimately solidifying four new tentative agreements on some of the last few outstanding non-economic issues. At our next session on May 25, both parties have once again agreed to welcome in a private mediator to help expedite the negotiations. With just two non-economic issues left to resolve, it is our hope that we can quickly find common ground so that we can focus on more substantive economic discussions with the mediator present. 

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This past Friday, Staten Island University Hospital and the New York State Nurses Association met virtually for our 21st negotiation session.

The parties continued to make steady, albeit slow progress, ending the day with two new tentative agreements. SIUH also presented several counter proposals on some of the last remaining non-economic topics that we hope to resolve before advancing to economic discussions. We look forward to continuing to discuss our latest proposals, and hope to accelerate Friday’s momentum at our next session on May 10.

Yesterday, Staten Island University Hospital met virtually with the New York State Nurses Association for our 20th negotiation session.  

It was a collaborative and productive session as we moved from agreement in principle on two important topics — work schedules and the hiring process — to reaching tentative agreements on both. We appreciate the union continuing to recognize the fundamental differences between the roles of NPs and RNs. We believe the parties are advancing in the right direction, and we hope to maintain this momentum at our next negotiation session on April 30.  

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Yesterday, Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) met virtually with the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) for our 19th negotiation session, which both parties agreed to have facilitated by a private mediator.

It was a productive session that resulted in three significant agreements in principle – and more importantly demonstrated the union’s emerging open-mindedness about the unique relationships that exist between NPs and physicians. Specifically, SIUH and NYSNA conceptually agreed on a customized hiring process for NPs when SIUH acquires new physician or medical practices. The parties also found common ground regarding work schedules that are specific to NPs.

While there are still some important non-economic issues to resolve before we can advance the negotiation to discussions about wages and benefits, we’re encouraged by the positive momentum we gained yesterday. We look forward to formalizing yesterday’s agreements and making further progress at our next session on April 14.

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This past Thursday and Friday, Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) met virtually for our 17th and 18th negotiation sessions.

In a good-faith effort to springboard the negotiations to more meaningful topics, SIUH started off by agreeing that provisions such as seniority, pay periods, grievance process and safe patient handling, which appear in the hospital’s staff nurses’ contract, will apply to nurse practitioners (NPs) without changes. We were hopeful that our movement on these issues would pave the way for the parties to focus on tailoring the remaining non-economic items in recognition of the key practice distinctions between NPs and staff nurses. Disappointingly, the union continues to not recognize the unique relationships that exist between advanced clinical practitioners – such as NPs – and physicians and residents.

It’s crucial that we resolve these last remaining non-economic issues before advancing the negotiation to economic topics, such as wages and benefits. We look forward to diving into some of these tough issues at our next session on March 26 – a session at which both parties have agreed to welcome in a private mediator to help accelerate the negotiations.

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Yesterday, Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) met virtually with the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) for our 16th negotiation session.

We’re pleased to report that SIUH and NYSNA were able to find common ground on the lingering issue of per diem usage that bogged down the negotiations over the past few months. This progress helped pave the way for more than a dozen additional tentative agreements on several fundamental contractual provisions – resulting in the most productive session to date. We look forward to continuing the momentum at our next session on Feb. 23. 

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Yesterday, Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) met virtually for our 15th negotiation session.

Picking up where we left off last week, the parties continued to seek a balance between NYSNA’s concerns regarding per diem overuse with SIUH’s need for flexibility to rely on per diems to cover unplanned absences and vacancies. SIUH is disappointed that we spent another session focusing on an insignificant issue that should be simple to resolve. By the end of the negotiation session, NYSNA made meaningful movement to find middle ground on the per diem issue. While ultimately we fell short of reaching an agreement, we remain hopeful that we will do so at our next session on Feb. 9. Advancing the negotiations past this sticking point will enable the parties to turn their focus to more substantial issues.

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