Nurses in Manhattan and the Bronx walked off the job for three days in January to demand a contract that would assign more workers to each patient — the latest in a wave of nurses’ strikes over staffing ratios. The ratified agreement addresses understaffing and also increases nurses’ pay by 19% over the next three years.

• Company: Mount Sinai Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center

• Union: New York State Nurses Association

• Strike length: 3 days

• Workers: 7,000

Workers at an agricultural machinery company voted against a tentative four-year agreement, the first contract vote in their more than eight months on the picket line. Union members reportedly declined the contract due to its lack of improvement to health care coverage, failure to increase vacation days, and subinflationary wage increases.