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Posted on 12/25/2025 8:43:03 AM PST by Libloather
New York City faces the threat of a strike next month by the main nurses’ union, which is holding out for an insane set of wage hikes of 10% a year for the next three years.
That adds up to a net full pay increase of 33%, even as many public and private hospitals struggle to remain afloat.
The New York State Nurses Association pretends a walkout is about ensuring “safe patient care” yet the demand risks pushing multiple hospitals into insolvency.
The strike would hit more than a dozen institutions, including Brooklyn Hospital Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai and New York Presbyterian.
NYSNA refuses to budge from a salary demand even though it follows the huge 19.7% pay hike nurses won in 2022 on the heels of the pandemic.
Among the obvious risks:
*Brooklyn Hospital is on the verge of bankruptcy and is reportedly delinquent on its contributions to the fund that covers NYSNA members’ health care.
*Montefiore Medical Center reports that the union’s demands would cost it $1.2 billion — a 50% jump over the current contract.
*Mount Sinai says paying the 33% hike would require it to spend $3.59 billion over three years — nearly three times its current nurse-pay costs ($1.281 billion) — and hike the average nurse salary from $162,000 to $272,000 a year.
*New York Presbyterian execs worry that the wage and benefits proposals would cost it $2.7 billion over three years.
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NY voters deserve what they get from Mami, Couldn’t have elected a worse candidate.
This comment was posted about a month ago:
Nurses unionized four of the six main hospitals in Western MA.
Three have shut down. One is being sold.
The union nurses can make $77 an hour for an extra shift. And they got 7.5% increase this year. Everyone else in the hospital I worked at got no raises.
John Lindsay was hit with a transit strike shortly after he took office. Then came the teachers’ and sanitation workers’ strikes. Lindsay, who got elected largely on his looks, was a lot like Mamdani and now has a reputation as a terrible mayor.
“7.5% increase this year“
Inflation stands at 2.7% now.
The healthcare industry will cause the US to have a sovereign debt crisis not too long from now.
This pillaging of our people and economy must end now.
” the new team at City Hall may find itself consumed by a crisis that upends all its plans for building the city a new future.”
Communists make plans, God laughs ...
From my high-level plan:
For health care, bring on market force:
1. Break most hospitals into two highly competitive entities
2. Convert other hospitals into real estate leasing entities with competing surgical suites and nursing wings
3. Separate out drug coverage so hospital systems can run care coverage systems and cut out insurance company overhead and meddlers.
I posted that.
I loved nurses. But I despise their union.
I have never seen a group of people who felt more entitled and resistant to even talking about change. They are worse than teachers.
And it only got worse after COVID.
“How do we blame Trump for this?”
~mammydammy, mayor
And the Devil cheers
“sanitation workers”
In Turin & Genoa, huge containers are placed out on the streets for recyclables, organic compost and to the dump trash.
Mamdamni .... YOU get a raise, and, YOU get a raise!
In the area where I grew up in upstate NY, working two days a week was common for nurses.
I don’t think the nurses strike was planned by Temu Gandhi.
There are shortages of nurses in many parts of the country so they can always move somewhere better.
I was there for those ‘fun’ Lindsay years. The only good thing about them was the disco music.
Crime went through the roof and NY went broke. The big Blackout and the smashing of the store fronts, looting. People were always saying how bad he was.
Not a problem. NYC will just do what the Brits did for their NHS — import unqualified 3rd worlders. Yes, unqualified. Brit lowered qualification standards so that they could replace high paid citizens with immigrants. Like the US military and every police dept did to meet DEI hiring standards.
So long as politicos and celebrities get to go to private hospitals all will go on.
Mount Sinai says paying the 33% hike would . . . hike the average nurse salary from $162,000 to $272,000 a year.
= = =
1.33 times 162 is 215.
I guess the delta of 272-215 is graft and corruption.
Correct—and the cost of living in NYC is so high that most places could pay half the salary and it would still be a win.
In two years he’ll be blaming Trump for not supporting the fine citizens of Bew York and demanding a 3 trillion dollar bailout.
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