Nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn have won a substantial financial victory after Arbitrator Howard Edelman ruled on Dec. 1 that those who worked on short-staffed shifts must be compensated. The nurses are represented by the Federation of Nurses/UFT. The award applies to a four-month period in 2022, and dictates that for each nurse that should have been working the shift to achieve safe staffing levels, but was not employed, the hospital, in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, must pay the average salary of a nurse for a shift and split it among those that did work. Director of the UFT Grievance Dept. Mark Collins said the ruling is precedent setting, as not only were violations found, but there is a monetary remedy. He hopes that because of the ruling, the hospital will no longer be incentivized to short-staff, which is a hazard for both nurses and patients.
Read the full story by UFT News, published December 20, 2023, here: https://www.uft.org/news/news-stories/news-stories/uft-nurses-arbitration-victory
