“We are not out here for wages. We are out here because we want the patients’ safety,” said Lorena Vivas, a nurse at Mount Sinai for 19 years and member of the executive committee of the New York State Nurses Association, to a crowd of hundreds of strikers and their supporters in front of Mount Sinai Hospital. “When I’m in ICU, I’m supposed to have two patients. I have three to four. I have two or three nurses working 24 hours,” she said. “This has been going on even before the pandemic.
And the union officials were getting overwhelming cheers from crowd as well with their position that they were fighting to put patients over profits. What the strike means for patient care Mount Sinai called the strike “reckless” and Montefiore called it a “sad day for New York City.” Both hospitals insisted that they would be able to provide the patient care needed with temporary “traveling” nurses brought in to serve patients and by shifting some workers from other duties in the hospital.
And patients he damned. I would love a 19% salary increase. Staffing is a universal problem. Hospitals, medical facilities, etc., can't do much because there's a nurse shortage & nursing students. Most left the industry. If you love what you do, then you'll get back to work.
19% is a giant amount.
Why cant everyone up to middle class get a 19% increase in wages after freezing the cost of living and tax hikes?
Ohh, rest assured, the unions that stump for democrats will get their way, and be able to keep up with inflation for their hard work lying to it's membership. The rest of us working stiffs will just get stiffed, losing over $3.00 an hour just since 2022..
They refuse to help patients to help patients. Makes sense to me. 🤦♂️
People don’t even understand what Nurse do They short staff us and we end up being maid, servant, phlebotomist consoler, medication dispenser stool and feeder. To then go under appreciated and especially in NY with such high tempers we risk getting assaulted like I was
Your 'Covid heroes' 19%.....
It’s about safe staffing levels! Always was and always has been!
So give them 10% and the other 9% toward patient care initiatives. See how they respond to that. It’s on their signs!
If the hospital can afford 19%, it can afford the other demands.
Nurses get to go on strike all them time bc they have unions- unfortunately resident physicians have no leverage and are forced to work 80-100 hours a week with multiple shifts going 26 hours+. The whole system can do better.
19% pay raise and they go on strike against sick patients? Awful
I bet the main issue was they were forced to get the jab that neither stop or prevents Covid and causes 20,000 adverse reactions/ death per million doses. Not a fun roulette game..
Probably Get 5 Percent 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Approved 🤡🤡 Sofs
Losers