showed up to work drunk or stoned<\/a>.<\/p>\nUnion officials had accused Montefiore of preventing nurses from accessing their and their families\u2019 medications from hospital pharmacies, leading to an unfair labor practice complaint.<\/p>\n
Mount Sinai, meanwhile, stunningly claimed that three labor and delivery nurses had tried to sabotage their workplace, while the union denied the accusation \u2014 shooting back that the workers were illegally fired by voicemail.<\/p>\n
The hospital system had also allegedly disciplined 14 nurse leaders as the strike loomed, union officials raged.<\/p>\n
While the attacks were flying from both sides, those by the hospital officials carried the greater risk of backfiring, said retired state Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who chaired its health committee for 35 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vehemence from the hospital side surprised me. I didn\u2019t see those attacks in the past,\u201d he told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe nurses are in a much stronger\u00a0position with the public and elected officials. It\u2019s hard to think of any group of employees in our economy more believed and respected than nurses.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Indeed, strikers drew support from the Uniformed Firefighters Association, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and other elected officials at Mount Sinai Morningside Thursday.<\/p>\n
The nurses ultimately have the upper hand with the public if the stalemate drags out, said veteran political consultant Hank Sheinkopf.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is more popular: the nurse or a hospital executive? It\u2019s the nurse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Temporary nurses are filling in for striking workers in three hospital systems. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n
Roughly 250 nurses marched in a circle near , chanting \u201cMonte Monte you can\u2019t hide, we can see your greedy side.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kate Pugh, a nurse in the adult emergency department at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, faulted management for the stalemate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis just feels like punishment. It feels like retaliation. It feels like they don\u2019t want to negotiate with us because if they did, they would be out here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2023, they were negotiating every day. They\u2019re not (now),\u201d she said. \u201cThe money that\u2019s being spent on travelers, and putting band aids on things, it could be spent on this contract that works.\u201d<\/p>\n
The traveling, temporary nurses have seemingly helped keep the hospitals running smoothly, based on interviews with several patients who largely experienced no major hiccups with service. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no problem. I am not worried,\u201d said Meybilin Portillo, 31, whose sister recently had a premature baby at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n
But Deborah Drummond, 58, said the nurse shortage created a hellish experience for her 96-year-old mother, who spent nearly 72 hours with pneumonia in the emergency room of Montefiore\u2019s Einstein Campus in Morris Heights.<\/p>\n
They tried transferring her mother to Mount Vernon, before ultimately keeping her in the Bronx at Montefiore Hospital in Norwood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey take damn good care of her here at Montefiore General. I\u2019ve been able to sleep better at night knowing she\u2019s taken care of,\u201d Drummond said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been chaotic or anything they\u2019ve been managing really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re nursing grudges. The massive nurses strike hitting three major New York City hospital systems hit its fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":519079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,3584,5371,39748,5248,222293,113226,405,403,24574,5226,5225,77401,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":["post-519078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-hospitals","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-labor-strikes","tag-metro","tag-montefiore-medical-center","tag-mount-sinai-hospital","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-presbyterian-hospital","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-nurses","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115901847675464830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519078","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=519078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}