Hundreds of nurses at NYC hospitals set to strike Monday
NEW YORK (WABC) — Hundreds of nurses throughout New York Metropolis are set to go on strike on Monday after no settlement has been reached amid ongoing contract negotiations.
Over 16,000 nurses are set to stroll off the job and hit the picket line since a deal was not reached on Sunday. It will likely be the most important nurses strike in metropolis historical past.
The New York State Nurses Affiliation confirmed they are going to be strolling our of Mount Sinai beginning at 6 a.m. Monday. Montefiore and NY Presbyterian can even discover nurses on the picket line.
Their contract expired on December 31. The union says it desires greater pay and safer working situations for its members.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched an announcement Sunday evening saying,
“The security and wellbeing of this metropolis is my high precedence and making certain New Yorkers have the care they want is essential, particularly throughout flu season. Town’s Emergency Administration workforce, FDNY, well being division, public hospital system, and my senior management workforce are in fixed communication and intently monitoring the state of affairs. We’re ready for any and all eventualities, together with a strike. No New Yorker ought to must concern shedding entry to well being care – and no nurse needs to be requested to just accept much less pay, fewer advantages or much less dignity for doing lifesaving work. Our nurses saved this metropolis alive by way of its hardest moments. Their worth isn’t negotiable. I am relieved that almost all hospitals have reached an settlement and urge the remaining events to remain on the desk and attain a deal that each honors our nurses and retains our hospitals open.”
Final Thursday evening, medical employees at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital have been confronted with an armed affected person holding folks hostage. Police finally shot and killed the suspect.
Lindsay Tuchman stories that the person was armed with a bit of bathroom seat.
The hospital places being impacted by the looming strike embody Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai West, Montefiore Hospital and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
New York State Nurses Affiliation President Nancy Hagans says it may very well be the worst attainable timing for a strike with a excessive variety of flu hospitalizations throughout the state.
“These rich hospitals are pushing to chop well being advantages for nurses who put their very own well being on the road to look after New Yorkers throughout this historic flu surge,” Hagans stated.
For nurse practitioner Dania Munoz, security is a precedence with regards to the job.
“Violence is on the rise in our establishments and in our items. Nurses on the bedside, and never simply nurses, medical doctors as effectively. Techs are getting harm by sufferers,” Munoz stated.
“We’re strike prepared on Monday, however we do not need to be there. We’d like truthful contracts now, as a result of I do know persons are going to endure, and that’s not what we would like. What we want is the safety and security to do our jobs.”
Whatever the strike, all hospitals confused that they’ll stay open.
Representatives for Mount Sinai are talking out Sunday morning, releasing an announcement studying partly: “We’re ready for a strike that would final an indefinite period of time and have taken each step to greatest assist our sufferers and staff within the occasion NYSNA forces our nurses to stroll away from the bedside for the second time in three years.”
In the meantime, all three Northwell hospitals on Lengthy Island have already reached an settlement to avert a strike.
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