NEW YORK (WABC) — Practically 15,000 union nurses throughout New York Metropolis stay on strike after no settlement was reached forward of the Monday morning deadline for contract negotiations.
It’s the largest nurses’ strike within the metropolis’s historical past.
The final time the nurses walked was in 2023. That strike lasted for 3 days.
No breakthroughs are in sight with negotiations at a standstill between the New York State Nurses Affiliation and three non-public hospitals programs: Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian.
The New York State Nurses Affiliation contract expired on December 31.
Staffing ranges are a high subject for placing nurses. The union says nurses are coping with unmanageable workloads.
Nurses additionally need improved safety in hospitals, higher pay, and fully-funded advantages.
At 6 a.m. Monday, waves of nurses walked off the job — elevating their voices at the hours of darkness, banging drums and blowing whistles.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood with placing nurses, calling their combat a battle for dignity, equity and the way forward for the town’s well being care system.
Mamdani mentioned the strike is about who advantages from the well being care system.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke at a protest by nurses at quite a few hospitals in New York Metropolis.
“There isn’t a scarcity of wealth within the healthcare business,” he mentioned. “The CEO of Montefiore made greater than $16 million final yr. The CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian made $26 million. However too many nurses cannot make ends meet.”
He mentioned nurses are usually not asking for hundreds of thousands, however for “pensions to be safeguarded, to be protected in their very own office, and to obtain the pay and well being advantages they deserve.”
The mayor mentioned the town is working to guard each sufferers and well being care staff through the strike. He urged hospital executives and union leaders to return to the bargaining desk instantly.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had already declared a state of emergency, saying {that a} strike “may jeopardize the lives of 1000’s of New Yorkers and sufferers.”
Montefiore Hospital argues the union is actually demanding a 40% pay hike.
“They deserve much more than what they’re asking for,” Mount Sinai employee Eric Morales mentioned.
Whatever the strike, all hospitals careworn that they may stay open.
Hospitals like Mount Sinai mentioned they’ve employed greater than 1,000 company nurses to assist fight disruptions to care.
Mount Sinai mentioned that they had shut to twenty% of their nurses come to work on Monday, and mentioned they anticipate extra to do the identical on Tuesday and within the coming days.
“The essential piece to be aware of is that now we have spent a lot of time bringing in extra assist to guarantee that accountable care of sufferers stays a precedence,” mentioned Dr. Brendan Carr.
In the meantime, all three Northwell hospitals on Lengthy Island have already reached an settlement to avert a strike.
Touring nurses have been employed to assist present medical care. Montefiore in the meantime expects this might final a number of weeks.
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