New York City is gearing up for a potential strike as roughly 10,000 nurses push for higher salaries and better working conditions, AP reports.
The conflict between New York City's major hospitals and their nurses is part of a nationwide movement that has seen a slew of healthcare workers launchThe New York State Nurses Association, comprised of roughly 42,000 union members, gave the hospitals 10 days' notice of anThe Flushing Hospital Medical Center reached a tentative agreement with nurses on Friday while negotiations continue with Montefiore Medical Center and the BronxCare Health System,But negotiations with Mount Sinai...
Union leaders have said they hope to avoid striking, which is set to start Monday if no agreement is reached."New York City hospitals have violated our trust through years of understaffing, and that understaffing has only gotten worse since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic," union President Nancy Hagans said at a press briefing Friday. "It’s time they ... deliver the safe staffing standards that nurses and our patients deserve.
"Striking is always a last resort. We’ve done everything we could to avoid a strike — and we will keep working toward a fair union contract," Matt Allen, the union's director at large and a nurse at Mount Sinai, wrote in an"Management has pushed us to the breaking point by refusing to listen to the alarms we’ve been sounding about chronic understaffing that puts our patients at risk."Friday that its offer included a wage increase totaling 19.
"Unfortunately, we remain at an impasse over the union leadership’s demand for a significant wage increase beyond what was agreed to at other hospitals."and is transferring some patients from its flagship hospital and two affiliates in anticipation of the strike.COVID-19 and its aftereffects have triggered a mass exodus of healthcare workers and led those who remain to
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