{"id":4839,"date":"2026-03-01T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:20:01","slug":"new-york-city-nurses-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/4839\/news\/new-york-city-nurses-go-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Nurses Go On Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, January 12, nearly 15,000 nurses in New York City went on strike at several of New York\u2019s biggest hospitals, including NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia, three locations of the Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Montefiore Medical Center. The union that represents the nurses, the New York State Nurses Association, claims the strike is due to unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios, a need for more security in hospitals, and is demanding higher wages for nurses.<\/span><\/p>\n

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally on the 12th to show solidarity and support for the nurses on the picket line.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the weeks before the strike began, hospitals had been preparing, hiring temporary nurses and making sure that they would be able to run during the strikes. NewYork-Presbyterian spent around $60 million in preparation for the strike, hiring over 1,700 short-term nurses to fill the gaps left by striking workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

One instance that has been used as an example of safety concerns for nurses was when a man wielding a makeshift weapon barricaded himself, a patient and hospital security worker in a room. The assailant was fatally shot by police when he attempted to charge them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nurses in New York went on strike in 2023 as well, with the main issue being understaffing. That strike was successful, with hospitals agreeing to set and enforce minimum staffing ratios.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday, February 9th, the nurses and two of the three hospitals affected reached an agreement, according to the nurse\u2019s union. The deal includes Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals, but not NewYork-Presbyterian, and it affects about 10,500 nurses, A deal between nurses and NewYork-Presbyterian was voted on from February 9th to the 11th, with nurses rejecting the deal and continuing the strike.<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 16th, the nurses won a legal battle against NewYork-Presbyterian. The hospital will now have to pay $399,829 to the nurses of a pediatric intensive care unit at the Morgan Stanley Children\u2019s Hospital, who had been overworked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At NewYork-Presbyterian\/Colombia, the nurses voted for a contract on Saturday, February 21st. This contract will last for three years, and ensures benefits, minimum staffing ratios, as well as efforts to improve safety conditions, work against AI, protect immigrant workers, and increase wages by over 12% over the next three years, among other things. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, January 12, nearly 15,000 nurses in New York City went on strike at several of New York\u2019s biggest hospitals, including NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia, three locations of the Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Montefiore Medical Center. The union that represents the nurses, the New York State Nurses Association, claims the strike is due to unsafe nurse-to-patient…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,37],"tags":[340],"staff_name":[295],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nationalnews","category-news","tag-march-26","staff_name-daniel-sulman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"staff_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_name?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}