Close to 15,000 nurses are participating, making it the biggest nurses strike the city has ever seen. Most union members voted last month to authorize the walkout. Anticipating the possibility of a strike,
New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, declared a state of emergency on Friday and urged hospital administrators and union leaders to reach a last-minute agreement. She warned that a strike “could jeopardize the lives of thousands of New Yorkers and patients”. “I’m strongly encouraging everyone to stay at the table, both sides, management and the nurses, until this is resolved,” Hochul said.
As in the 2023 labor dispute, the current conflict centers on a complex mix of grievances, rebuttals and hospital-specific concerns. Staffing remains a key source of contention, with nurses arguing that well-funded hospitals are unwilling to commit to standards that ensure safe and manageable workloads....
and the socialist Mayor is backing the nurses.
The nursing shortage is constant, and with the aging population and with the increase in paperwork required in hospitals that distracts nurses from doing actual nursing, you can see how the emphasis is about money for the paper pushers, not the nurses.
But does the influx of overseas nurses to fill the gap in the nursing shortage depress wages for US Nurses?
I examine this in my medical blog, but the answer is probably not.
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