{"id":87601,"date":"2026-01-02T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87601\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:19:07","slug":"20k-nyc-nurses-warn-they-will-go-on-strike-in-just-10-days-if-wage-hike-demands-arent-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87601\/","title":{"rendered":"20K NYC nurses warn they will go on strike in just 10 days if wage hike demands aren’t met"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Apple nurses on Friday officially threatened to go on their \u201cbiggest\u201d strike in the city\u2019s history amid a high-stakes contract dispute with a dozen hospitals.<\/p>\n

The New York State Nurses Association union gave the hospitals 10-day notices warning that if an agreement isn\u2019t reached, up to 20,000 nurses could go on strike Jan. 12.<\/p>\n

\"ANearly 20,000 nurses in New York City are threatening to go on the \u201cbiggest\u201d strike in the city\u2019s history amid a high-stakes contract dispute with a dozen hospitals. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been bargaining for months, but hospitals have not done nearly enough to settle fair contracts that protect patient care,\u201d said the union\u2019s president Nancy Hagans in a statement. \u201cStriking is always a last resort; however, nurses will not stop until we win contracts that deliver patient and nurse safety. The future of care in this city is far too important to compromise on our values as nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The union proclaimed it could be the \u201cbiggest nurse strike in New York City history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hospitals that could be hit by the mega-strike include Brooklyn Hospital Center, Mount Sinai Hospital and New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center.<\/p>\n

The nurses are holding out for\u00a0wage hikes of 10% a year<\/a>\u00a0for the next three years \u2013 a demand the hospitals\u2019 leaders claim is unaffordable.<\/p>\n

\"NursesThe New York State Nurses Association union-represented nurses gave the hospitals 10-day strike notices. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n

But the union has shot back by highlighting the\u00a0hospital executives\u2019 massive pay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Any strike would be \u201cirresponsible,\u201d especially because the hospitals would have to spend tens of millions of dollars to bring in outside nurses, said Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have the greatest respect for our nurses, but this action by NYSNA leadership flies in the face of massive cuts in the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act that will slash $8 billion from New York hospitals and trigger a loss of an estimated 34,000 hospital jobs statewide,\u201d Raske said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerspective is needed from NYSNA leadership. Nursing salaries today are significantly higher than those of other dedicated New York City professionals such as teachers, police officers, and firefighters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Apple nurses on Friday officially threatened to go on their \u201cbiggest\u201d strike in the city\u2019s history amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1948,26920,57,9,23187,56,63,65,64,23289,58,18860],"class_list":{"0":"post-87601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-hospitals","9":"tag-labor-strikes","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-nurses","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-strikes","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-wages"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}