{"id":471251,"date":"2025-12-25T18:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471251\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T18:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:32:12","slug":"nyc-nurses-strike-could-slam-health-care-system-in-zohran-mamdanis-first-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471251\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC nurses\u2019 strike could slam health-care system in Zohran Mamdani\u2019s first month"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City faces the threat of a strike next month by the main nurses\u2019 union<\/a>, which is holding out for an insane set of wage hikes of 10% a year for the next three years.<\/p>\n

That adds up to a net full pay increase of 33%, even as many public and private hospitals struggle to remain afloat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The New York State Nurses Association<\/a> pretends a walkout is about ensuring \u201csafe patient care\u201d yet the demand risks pushing multiple hospitals into insolvency.<\/p>\n

The strike would hit more than a dozen institutions, including Brooklyn Hospital Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai and New York Presbyterian.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Among the obvious risks:<\/p>\n

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*Brooklyn Hospital is on the verge of bankruptcy and is reportedly delinquent on its contributions to the fund that covers NYSNA members\u2019 health care.<\/p>\n

*Montefiore Medical Center reports that the union\u2019s demands would cost it $1.2 billion \u2014 a 50% jump over the current contract.<\/p>\n

*Mount Sinai says paying the 33% hike would require it to spend $3.59 billion over three years \u2014 nearly three times its current nurse-pay costs ($1.281 billion) \u2014 and hike the average nurse salary from $162,000 to $272,000 a year.<\/p>\n

*New York Presbyterian execs worry that the wage and benefits proposals would cost it $2.7 billion over three years.<\/p>\n

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While not subject to the threatened strike against the private hospitals, the city\u2019s public hospitals would be expected to follow the pattern set by the private institutions\u2019 collective-bargaining agreement when the city\u2019s nursing-union contract is up.<\/p>\n

This follows the recent five-day walkout by 31,000 registered nurses and other health-care workers<\/a> over similar demands on West Coast medical care giant Kaiser Permanente \u2014 where negotiations remain stalled.<\/p>\n

With the state likely facing reductions in what it had planned to collect from Medicaid, hospital budgets are already uncertain; NYSNA\u2019s over-the-top demands could destabilize the entire city health-care system.<\/p>\n

Yet Gov. Kathy Hochul appears content to sit on the sidelines, while the potential crisis doesn\u2019t even seem to be on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n

If some leader doesn\u2019t step up to resolve the standoff soon, the new team at City Hall may find itself consumed by a crisis that upends all its plans for building the city a new future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City faces the threat of a strike next month by the main nurses\u2019 union, which is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4691,3584,39748,113226,405,403,5226,5225,77401,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-471251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-hospitals","11":"tag-labor-strikes","12":"tag-mount-sinai-hospital","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-nurses","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115781641508786742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}