More than 7,000 nurses walked off the job at two major hospitals, with four campuses, in New York City yesterday, after negotiations over the past 10 days made no headway for how to improve the problems of low staff conditions and nurses’ pay. Some 10,000 Metro New York nurses had given notice 12 days ago to several major hospitals that new staffing ratios, pay, and other conditions should be worked out, or they would strike on Jan. 9.
As of late Sunday, Jan. 8, bargaining with the nurses failed at Montefiore and Mount Sinai Hospitals. These two hospital systems account together for 16% of all the hospital beds in the city.
