Thousands of New York City nurses strike for the second day

TIME

Almost 15,000 nurses at several major New York hospitals are on strike, raising concerns about how staffing shortages could affect the city’s health care system.  The strike, which began on Monday morning, came as contract negotiations stalled after months of bargaining, according to the nurses’ union, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). It is impacting some of the city’s top medical centers: Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Montefiore Medical Center.

Transcript

00:00The nurses united will never be defeated.

00:07We hope this comes to a resolution soon, but we're out here to stand as long as we need to,

00:12to get a better contract, a fair contract.

00:15It's about health care, health insurance for the nurses.

00:18It's about safety, patients' rights.

00:21They hired many, many tribal nurses even before we dropped our strike notice.

00:26We were forced to train our replacements, and they always say they never have enough money to basically give us more staff.

00:33They have the staff now, they have us out here.

00:35I guess it only counts when it matters to them.

00:38It matters to us every single day.

00:40We need staff every single day, not only when there's a strike.

00:43If the nurses are outside, it's not because of wages.

00:46What we're asking for is our health insurance.

00:48They're talking about making cuts to our health insurance.

00:51They're talking about disseminating basically what we have.

00:53We went through COVID, what if another pandemic comes?

00:56What about our health insurance?

00:58What about our safety in regards to that?

01:00We'll check that out.

01:01We're testing out all the把它 that would be blocked against our students.

01:02We're testing out all the different channels.

01:03Can you pię nickname about our health insurance insurance care?

01:05Not that?

01:06We're interested in ambos.

01:08Who should going is now to get us and wobbly be stopped once at the time for us?

01:12Oh, ow!

01:13What about our health insurance, congress?

01:14Who's fisher respe desc TTATE?

01:16Oh, ok.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended