Posted on 02/05/2026 6:06:20 AM PST by Salman
As a historic nurses’ strike enters its fourth week, New York governor Kathy Hochul has protected hospitals from the strike’s impact by making it easier to hire scabs and doing little to stop executives from dragging out a fight over staffing and safety.
On Monday morning, with temperatures below freezing, New York City nurses began the fourth week of the largest nursing strike in the city’s history, which has seen some fifteen thousand nurses across multiple Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian facilities walk off the job.
Hundreds of nurses kicked off the week by gathering near Grand Central Terminal and marching to Governor Kathy Hochul’s nearby office, aiming pressure at a state leader who has repeatedly extended an executive order allowing hospitals to more easily hire temporary and out-of-state replacement staff (referred to in union parlance as “scabs”), blunting the leverage of the work stoppage. Nurses’ demand is specific: Hochul should not extend the executive order again, removing a measure that has made it easier for hospital systems to staff around the strike. The latest extension expires today.
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Ah the joys of New York....so nice they named it twice as they used to say.
Hochul is doing what her biggest donors require. All politicians are just whores.
The very same people who voted for her.
Does anybody give a sh*t about the nurses undermining the health care of illegal aliens?
Dang...didn’t know there was a nurse’s union. So glad I don’t live in that hellhole.
The union nurses’ union in California is very powerful and leftwing.
As a healthcare professional that works at a non profit hospital, most hospitals are non profit. The amount of pay at the top of these systems is skewed too much. The uppers can make more in a day and a half and an entire year of one of these nurses.
The gap between what management says it can’t afford and what it chooses to fund is stark. In 2024, NewYork-Presbyterian CEO Steven Corwin saw his pay rise to $26.3 million
— about $72,000 a day
— while Montefiore CEO Philip Ozuah made $16.7 million and Mount Sinai’s CEO Kenneth Davis took home $8.4 million. These are sums that could staff units, fund violence prevention
They get what they effing deserve.
"Historic?" Please.
If Grandma has to die from nursing neglect, it’s a small price to pay for the future of organized labor./s/
The Governor is quite right in helping hospitals take care of patients.
If a nurse is not satisfied with his/her job, the nurse should find another job.
Patients come first.
“$26.3 million...$16.7 million...$8.4 million”
I realize the jobs are tough, but that is more vanity money than compensation.
“In recent days, the hospitals have jointly proposed a 3% raise each year for three years, the New York State Nurses Association confirmed to Gothamist. But NYSNA officials said the hospitals’ offer comes with delayed start dates for the raises each year that have the effect of significantly reducing the overall salary boost.”
“In their previous contracts with these hospital systems, nurses won major staffing gains, including commitments to maintain certain nurse-to-patient ratios and a process for requiring hospitals to pay out fines when they violate their staffing commitments. Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian and Montefiore have paid out millions of dollars to nurses in recent years as a result of those staffing agreements.”
https://gothamist.com/news/striking-nyc-nurses-have-been-out-23-days-heres-where-things-stand
The democRATS would “undermine” gravity if they could figure out how to make a buck out of it.
so these striking nurses prefer that patients die? I will NEVER side with essential workers striking
i rarely side with anybody striking these days
Nurses have gone rogue and are now politician wannabes. Look at that crazy Pretti boi. He went full bananas and rice.
I’m only a pharmacy tech, and I would never strike. Holy crap. I’d definitely never strike as a nurse.
I’d bet these striking nurses were the 2020 covid dancing nurses.
Without nurses, hospitals are just sh*tty hotels with terrible food.
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