More than 7,000 unionized nurses walked off the job Monday at two of New York City’s largest hospitals after negotiations stalled over the weekend.
Approximately 3,600 nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and 3,500 at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx are involved in the strike, the Associated PressThe strike has forced the two private nonprofit hospitals to adjust their services, including diverting ambulances, postponing nonemergency surgeries, transferring patients, bringing in temporary staff, and assigning managers with nursing experience to cover for the missing workers.
While other hospitals in the city were able to come to agreements before the deadline on Sunday, Mount Sinai and Montefiore were unable to reach deals with the New York State Nurses Association, the union which represents the workers. The union says it is striking because of understaffed wards that have caused nurses on duty to care for too many patients and for “fair contracts.”
Nurses stage a strike in front of Mt. Sinai Hospital in the Manhattan borough of New York, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, after negotiations broke down hours earlier. “Nurses don’t want to strike. Bosses have pushed us to strike by refusing to seriously consider our proposals to address the desperate crisis of unsafe staffing that harms our patients,” the New York State Nurses Association
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