In joining striking private-hospital nurses on the picket line Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani forgot that he’s the city’s chief executive — and so part of the management the union is fighting.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference as New York State Nurses Association union members walk the picket line outside NewYork-Presbyterian Milstein hospital during their strike in New York City on Jan.
12, 2026.Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani forgot that he’s the city’s chief executive — and so part of the management the union is fighting.the private-sector nurse contracts: The union opted not to strike against them out of PR calculations.After record pay hikes in the last contract, the NYS Nurses Association now want 10%-a-year increases — up 33% over three years — even as the city’s public hospitals struggle to remain afloat Last month, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli warned that NYC H+H’s 11 acute-care hospitals and other health-care facilities face tough fiscal sledding amid ongoing deficits, reduced federal funding and a soaring share of patients who rely on Medicaid or no insurance at all. “My job as mayor is . . . to stand alongside the working people who stand with us every day, and to build a city where everyone can live a life of dignity,” Comrade Mamdani pontificated Monday morning. working people’s needs. The union’s ask would hike the average nurse’s salary from $162,000 to $272,000 per year; it also objects to members being asked to contribute to their pensions, somethingAs in most labor disputes, management and the union are hurling all manner of charges at each other; if he’s to be the mayor for all New Yorkers, Mamdani needs to stay out of the crossfire — not feed it. If he keeps playing no-skin-in-the-game activist at the expense of his day job, he’ll doom his mayoralty. Early on, the knock on the last mayor was that he was still behaving like a borough president; this one will find himself in worse trouble if he thinks he can keep playing responsibility-free state assemblyman.NYC heiress reveals shocking way she learned of husband's affair after 21 years of marriage
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