{"id":24758,"date":"2023-01-14T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=24758"},"modified":"2023-01-14T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T21:23:26","slug":"historic-victory-nyc-nurses-win-deal-with-hospitals-after-3-days-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/14\/historic-victory-nyc-nurses-win-deal-with-hospitals-after-3-days-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018HISTORIC VICTORY\u2019: NYC NURSES WIN DEAL WITH HOSPITALS AFTER 3 DAYS ON STRIKE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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POSTED IN ECONOMY AND INEQUALITY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, we can return to work with our heads held high, knowing that our victory means safer care for our patients and more sustainable jobs for our profession.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0JAKE JOHNSON<\/a><\/strong> JANUARY 12, 2023 (therealnews.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital strike outside the hospital on January 9, 2023, in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York City. Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams<\/a> on January 12, 2023. It is shared here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York City nurses and two major hospitals reached a tentative agreement on Thursday that the healthcare workers\u2019 union celebrated as a \u201chistoric victory\u201d after three days of striking for a fair contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more than 7,000 striking nurses agreed to return to work Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center, privately owned hospitals whose management previously refused to accept the nurses\u2019 central demand for safer staffing requirements\u2014pushing the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) to leverage the power of collective action<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to NYSNA, the tentative deal<\/a> includes \u201cwall-to-wall safe staffing ratios for all inpatient units with firm enforcement so that there will always be enough nurses at the bedside to provide safe patient care, not just on paper.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNYSNA nurses have done the impossible, saving lives night and day, throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and now we\u2019ve again shown that nothing is impossible for nurse heroes,\u201d said Nancy Hagans, RN, the president of the union. \u201cThrough our unity and by putting it all on the line, we won enforceable safe staffing ratios at both Montefiore and Mount Sinai where nurses went on strike for patient care. Today, we can return to work with our heads held high, knowing that our victory means safer care for our patients and more sustainable jobs for our profession.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to NYSNA, the tentative deal<\/a> includes \u201cwall-to-wall safe staffing ratios for all inpatient units with firm enforcement so that there will always be enough nurses at the bedside to provide safe patient care, not just on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew staffing ratios take effect immediately in a historic breakthrough for hospitals that refused to consider ratios that nurses have been demanding for decades,\u201d the union said. \u201cAt Montefiore, nurses will also return to work this morning after winning new safe staffing ratios in the Emergency Department, with new staffing language and financial penalties for failing to comply with safe staffing levels in all units. Nurses also won community health improvements and nurse-student partnerships to recruit local Bronx nurses to stay as union nurses at Montefiore for the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The nurses\u2019 fight for safe staffing measures and other changes drew national attention to Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore\u2019s business practices, including their lavish compensation of executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile Montefiore and Mount Sinai are technically nonprofits, they frequently act like large corporations\u2014with massive investments on Wall Street and overseas, and providers sidelined from essential care decisionmaking,\u201d The Lever<\/em>\u2018s Matthew Cunningham-Cook reported<\/a> earlier this week. \u201cThese nonprofit hospitals also boast huge executive salaries. Mount Sinai CEO Kenneth Davis made $5.6 million in 2019, the last year for which complete tax records are available. Montefiore CEO Philip Ozuah made $7.4 million in 2020. Montefiore disclosed providing an unnamed executive (or executives) with a chauffeur and first-class airfare in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn filings with the IRS, Mount Sinai disclosed that 15 executives made more than $1 million annually in 2019,\u201d Cunningham-Cook added. \u201cMontefiore disclosed ten in 2020, with all making more than $1.5 million.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the picket line with striking nurses on Monday, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) said<\/a> he was \u201ctired of living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, but we never have enough money for our workers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf CEOs can double their pay,\u201d Bowman declared, \u201cwe can give workers a fair contract.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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