Albert Einstein College of Medicine Nurses Ratify Contract!

(Email Update July 5, 2024)

Nurses at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) unanimously voted to ratify a new contract on Wednesday, July 3. NYSNA nurses won commitments for funding the NYSNA pension and NYSNA healthcare plan. The contract also improves retirement benefits and adds Juneteenth as a holiday. Finally, nurses secured competitive wage increases to ensure recruitment and retention in the facility. 

While management initially resisted nurses’ demands for wages and improved retirement benefits, nurses went above and beyond to make it happen. They collected petitions and hand-delivered them to the dean with demands that nurses be respected. They distributed leaflets to the campus community — including students, residents, physicians and researchers —  that described their fight and organized their support. They showed up to the bargaining table, wrote letters of support, and coordinated with nurses and executive committee members from Montefiore’s main campus in a display of mutual support and solidarity. Their commitment to a fair contract paid off, and they plan on coordinating with Montefiore’s Main Campus committee in next year’s negotiations to combine forces and show once again the strength Monte nurses have when they unite for a fair contract.

Congratulations, AECOM nurses, on this well-deserved victory!