We are just over a day away from when thousands of New York City nurses say they'll walk off the job if their needs aren't met. If their union and their hospitals can't agree by Monday morning, a strike will take place. JennBisramTV reports.
If their union and their hospitals can't agree by Monday morning, a strike will take place.
"We don't want to strike," said Matt Allen, who has been a registered nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side for seven years."Us nurses have been calling out for help from the administration, from our hospital administration, to say, hey, there's too many patients, there's too little nurses."
"We went through COVID, we risked our lives, we put ourselves out there, we sacrificed many things to take care of the patients in these hospitals ... Where has that respect gone for us?" Allen said.RELATED STORY: As of Saturday, Montefiore in the Bronx, Mount Sinai on the Upper East Side and Mount Sinai Morningside and West are the only three that have not yet reached a deal.
Mount Sinai is the biggest hospital in the system with 3,600 nurses. They've been preparing for a potential strike this week by moving patients, including babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, to other hospitals, postponing elective surgeries, diverting ambulances and bringing in travel nurses."They have 500 vacancies. What are they going to do about that? How do they begin to recruit the nurses competitively?" Allen said."One nurse is taking care of 10 patients.
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