The New York State Nurses Association has reached a tentative contract agreement with the city’s public-hospital system that would close the longstanding pay gap between public- and private-sector nurses. The agreement followed an arbitrator’s decision Monday awarding the public-sector nurses pay parity.
Nurses at NYC Health + Hospitals currently earn $84,744, about $20,000 less than their private-sector counterparts. The tentative deal, also announced Monday, provides pay-parity wage increases over the first two years of the five-and-a-half year pact.
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