NYSNA confirms that negotiations are back on the table as thousands of nurses return to the picket lines Thursday for the fourth day in a row.

The union says that nurses and hospital executives are scheduled to meet with the help of a mediator on Thursday evening and Friday.

News 12 visited Montefiore’s Moses campus in Norwood, where union nurses say the hospital has hired travel nurses to replace them while they’re on strike. They say there are so many travel nurses that multiple of them are able to attend to one patient. Union nurses told News 12 they want those ratios with the union nurses and don’t understand why the hospital won’t staff them properly.

News 12 also visited Montefiore’s campus Wednesday night for Day 3 of the strike.

Nurses say they are overcrowding in emergency rooms and inadequate patient-to-nurse ratios.

Nurses also say they are getting hurt on the job and are asking for better working conditions and stronger safety measures.

Both Montefiore Health System and Mount Sinai Health System have called the union’s proposal unreasonable, claiming it would cost billions of dollars and raise average nurse salaries to nearly $250,000.

A Mount Sinai spokesperson said the hospital has sufficient resources to withstand the strike into next week. Meanwhile, roughly 15,000 nurses across the city say they will remain on the picket lines until a deal is reached.