Academic hospitals are the holdouts, according to the nursing association, and issues of safety and health benefits are at the center of the strike.
Today, nurses across New York City have gone on strike. Nearly 15,000 New York State Nursing Association (NYSNA) members are part of the unfair-labor-practice strike, which NYSNA says is the result of management at several hospitals refusing, after months of bargaining, to make meaningful progress on core issues the nurses have been fighting for: safe staffing for patients, healthcare benefits for nurses, and protections against workplace violence.
Mayor Mamdani joins in. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined the picket line this morning. Yesterday on social media, he stated: “No New Yorker should have to fear losing access to health care — and no nurse should be asked to accept less pay, fewer benefits or less dignity for doing lifesaving work. Our nurses kept this city alive through its hardest moments. Their value is not negotiable.”
NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, BSN, CCRN, explains: “Hospital management refuses to address our most important issues—patient and nurse safety. It is shameful that the city’s richest hospitals refuse to continue healthcare benefits for frontline nurses, refuse to staff safely for our patients, and refuse to protect us from workplace violence. It is deeply offensive that they would rather use their billions to fight against their own nurses than settle a fair contract. Nurses do not want...
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