How a nurses’ strike could slam NYC’s teetering health-care system in Mamdani’s first month

NY Post ^ | 12/25/25 | Post Editorial Board

[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.

[No name given]

Right now.

[No name given]

Exactly, that’s how braindead lefty voters in NYC are.

[bwest]

Gooder and harder, New York!

[rlmorel]

"...They are worse than teachers..."

That is saying a lot. I spent 40 years in healthcare, and in my Leftist state, it is populated in a majority by Leftists.

It has always been a depressing puzzle for me, how these seemingly intelligent and educated people I encountered in the area of healthcare could be so predominately Leftist.

Over time, I have come to believe that the thing to remember about Leftists is:

• Leftists are Leftists before they are Doctors.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Teachers.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Mechanics.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Cooks.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Accountants.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Electricians.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Fireman.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Musicians.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Parents.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Soldiers.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Doctors.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Welders.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Husbands.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Wives.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Nurses.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Fathers.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Brothers.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Sons.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Clergy.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Businessmen.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Daughters.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Farmers.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Cashiers.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Judges.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Police.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Garbage Collectors.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Writers.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Americans.
  
  
• Leftists are Leftists before they are Christians.

Any time Leftists are confronted with a conflict between being a nurse, a doctor, a soldier, or a parent, they universally choose the path of Leftism.

[PGalt]

Good point. THey’ll be licensed like unqualified ruck. drivers and. inadvertently killing patients.

[vpintheak]

Could be part of the whole plan, or just the nurses union plan. Get a sympathetic commie as Mayor, and they’ll easily have their demands met.

[Vaduz]

Three have shut down.

Union Label taped to the front door?.

[vpintheak]

From a couple nurses I have talked to , and my sister-in-law; most nurses, for whatever reason, end up being the mean-girls from high school. They are the catty, back-stabbing, cruel types. It’s weird. I never expected that. I expected the motherly types, but they tell me otherwise.

[PGR88]

That adds up to a net full pay increase of 33%, even as many public and private hospitals struggle to remain afloat.

Don't worry, the government will just issue more debt, and print more money. That's how socialism works, both in NY City and in Washington DC.

[FlingWingFlyer]

GO NURSES!!! Stick it to the boy. Maybe he’ll go home to his goats and camels.

[FlingWingFlyer]

GO NURSES!!! Stick it to the boy. Maybe he’ll go home to his goats and camels. He’s in over his head. Idiot.

[frank ballenger]

As with the cops being replaced in some jurisdictions by social workers to de-escalate emotional situations with armed psychos holding a hostage, Mamdani should replace nurses with mindfulness counselors.

Ones trained in Paramahamsa Yogananda’s book Scientific Healing Affirmations. If patients don’t make it then better luck next incarnation.

This post is not intended to diagnose or treat any illness.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Maybe Mamdani can get those Somalis to come help him, look how they saved Boston and made it what it is today.

[SuperLuminal]

Excellent news...

[medical conservative]

No union is worse than the teachers union, none

[Gay State Conservative]

In the late 1970s Britain was being devastated by strikes across the country. It seemed that the entire country was on strike. During the 1979 Election campaign Margaret Thatcher's campaign made a million signs simply saying "Labour Isn't Working".

She won in a landslide!