A second day of strikes across the city as nurses demand increased staffing, better wages and stronger workplace protections.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Nurses are calling for increased staffing, better wages and stronger workplace protections
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A spokesperson for Montefiore says the New York State Nurses Association leadership continues “to double down on their $3.6 billion in reckless demands, including nearly 40% wage increases”
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Mount Sinai said it fired three nurses for allegedly sabotaging emergency preparedness drills ahead of the strike<\/p>\n
\u201cTake care of the community. That\u2019s all we want. We want you to take care of our community,\u201d Vanessa Welvon, who\u2019s worked as a registered nurse at Montefiore Hospital for more than three decades, said.<\/p>\n
Welvon was among dozens of nurses who joined the picket line outside Montefiore in the Bronx on Tuesday after contract negotiations failed with hospital leadership.<\/p>\n
Nearly 15,000 nurses are participating in strikes outside hospitals within the Montefiore, Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are out here for our patients. We\u2019re out here because the patients deserve dignified care. The patients deserve to be cared for. The patients are in the emergency rooms, they\u2019re overcrowded, they have to stay there for days and days on end. And when they\u2019re finally moved upstairs, they\u2019re moved to hallway beds. That\u2019s not fair,\u201d Welvon said.<\/p>\n
Nurses at Montefiore are calling for equitable care for their patients, who are predominantly Black and Latino. They claim the hospital has long been overlooked and underserved.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are Black and brown patients in our community. We are their voice. They cannot speak for themselves. A lot of us were raised here. We go to school here. We go to the same grocery store. Our kids go to the same schools. And I feel like it is our responsibility to advocate for these patients who can\u2019t speak for themselves,\u201d Ana Davis, who has worked at Montefiore for 20 years, said.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Montefiore says the New York State Nurses Association leadership continues \u201cto double down on their $3.6 billion in reckless demands, including nearly 40% wage increases.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not about money. This is about the care. We cannot provide the kind of care that the patient needs, then we become a part of the problem. We\u2019re not a part of the problem. We\u2019re a part of the solution,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mount Sinai said it fired three nurses for allegedly sabotaging emergency preparedness drills ahead of the strike. A hospital spokesperson says the nurses deliberately hid supplies from replacement nurses who were in training.<\/p>\n
The nurses union calls the firings illegal and says the hospital didn\u2019t follow the disciplinary process.<\/p>\n
Spokespeople for all three hospital systems say they will remain open during the strike and are ready to keep negotiating a fair contract with union leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second day of strikes across the city as nurses demand increased staffing, better wages and stronger workplace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2952,25,2953,9,24,55,54,12,56,332,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-99856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-health","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-rebecca-greenberg","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99856","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=99856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}