{"id":98166,"date":"2026-01-13T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98166\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:35:09","slug":"mayor-mamdani-just-joined-the-nurses-picket-line-against-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98166\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani just joined the nurses’ picket line against HIMSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"

In joining striking private-hospital nurses on the picket line <\/a>Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani forgot that he\u2019s the city\u2019s chief executive \u2014 and so part of the management the union is fighting.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s public hospitals, under NYC H+H , have already committed to matching the private-sector nurse contracts: The union opted not to strike against them out of PR calculations.<\/p>\n

Yet the union\u2019s demands mean big trouble for city taxpayers and Mamdani\u2019s other spending plans. <\/p>\n

After record pay hikes in the last contract, the NYS Nurses Association now want 10%-a-year increases \u2014 up 33% over three years \u2014 even as the city\u2019s public hospitals struggle to remain afloat<\/p>\n

Last month, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli warned that NYC H+H\u2019s 11 acute-care hospitals and other health-care facilities face tough fiscal sledding amid ongoing deficits, reduced federal funding and a soaring share of patients who rely on Medicaid or no insurance at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy job as mayor is . . . to stand alongside the working people who stand with us every day, and to build a city where everyone can live a life of dignity,\u201d Comrade Mamdani pontificated Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But the striking nurses already live a \u201clife of dignity\u201d and are not \u201chaving difficulty making ends meet\u201d \u2014 while their demands threaten other working people\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n

The union\u2019s ask would hike the average nurse\u2019s salary from $162,000 to $272,000 per year; it also objects to members being asked to contribute to their pensions, something most private-sector workers must do.<\/p>\n

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Does the novice chief executive know that one alleged contract demand would protect drunken and stoned nurses from being fired<\/a>?\u00a0Whose \u201clife with dignity\u201d does that protect?<\/p>\n

As in most labor disputes, management and the union are hurling all manner of charges at each other; if he\u2019s to be the mayor for all New Yorkers, Mamdani needs to stay out of the crossfire \u2014 not feed it.<\/p>\n

If he keeps playing no-skin-in-the-game activist at the expense of his day job, he\u2019ll doom his mayoralty. <\/p>\n

Early on, the knock on the last mayor was that he was still behaving like a borough president; this one will find himself in worse trouble if he thinks he can keep playing responsibility-free state assemblyman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In joining striking private-hospital nurses on the picket line Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani forgot that he\u2019s the city\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,304,1948,26920,26613,9,24,55,54,23187,56,22198,299,82],"class_list":["post-98166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-contracts","tag-editorial","tag-hospitals","tag-labor-strikes","tag-montefiore-medical-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-nurses","tag-ny","tag-nyc-health-and-hospitals","tag-opinion","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98166","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=98166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}