I wonder what it’s like being a NYC RT right now. Watching your RN coworkers strike for 275K while we RTs never get our piece of the pie. I don’t care if I’m called a crab in the bucket, they should be striking for ALL health care professionals, not just them.

Sometimes wish RT would’ve just been a specialty in nursing instead of its own licensing board. Now we have less numbers and less power leading to us having similar debt and education standards with 5x less the pay.

Do you support the NYC nurses on strike ? Their demands are summarized here . A 40% wage increase over 3 years ‚fully funded healthcare(no copays) more metal detectors and lower or same staff ratios that are now 5:1. Do you think it will improve healthcare or bankrupt it ?

The nurses in NYC make 109-150k a year for 3x12 hour shift a week, guaranteed 6 figure right out of college? Why r they complaining about mortgage and being overworked when there r ppl who literally make less money than them and r struggling in NYC. I feel like they’re only loud because of their union, when I worked as a PCT in NYC I saw how residents have to do so much extra shit like drawing blood, patient transport, ekg, IV if the nurses don’t feel like doing it all while carrying 300k+ of debt and making 240-280k as a generalist attending. Some of the NYC nurses on my floor literally don’t help out much knowing that’s it’s the resident’s job later on and that they cant be fired

the salary in NYC for physicians and resident are also so garbage, I genuinely think they should also be encouraged to strike at major hospitals, this is mad unfair and makes me want to avoid doing a residency in NYC, cuz when stuff like this happens we also end up doing more work. I’m appalled by how little backbone physician organizations have compared to nurses.

A strike of nearly 15,000 nurses is scheduled to begin on Monday morning at four hospitals in New York City. If it proceeds as planned, the walkout will become the biggest nurses’ strike in the city’s history.

The private nonprofit hospitals involved are Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The nurses’ main demands are safe staffing, fully funded health benefits, protections against workplace violence, and raises. The nurses voted by 97 percent to strike when their contracts expired on December 31.

Mount Sinai Hospital fired three nurses via voicemail message on the eve of a massive ongoing strike, a move that amounts to illegal retaliation and intimidation, the New York State Nurses Association said on Tuesday.

Nearly 15,000 nurses in New York City walked off the job Monday morning in the first major strike of the new year. Nurses at New York Presbyterian, Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospital systems staffed boisterous picket lines throughout the day, carrying strike placards and homemade signs that provided a glimpse of the conditions they are struggling against. “Closets are for clothes, not for babies,” one sign read. “Who takes health care away from ‘heroes’?” another asked.

The walkout, which was pared back by the New York State Nurses Association’s last-minute deals with eight hospitals, is nonetheless the largest nurses’ strike in the history of New York City. It comes three years after the last major nurses’ strike in the city, which involved two of the same hospital systems, Mount Sinai and Montefiore. A key issue then, as now, is unsafe staffing levels that have led to impossible conditions for nurses.

Not only have staffing levels remained dangerous for patients and untenable for workers, but the hospital executives are demanding workers accept cuts to their own health benefits. They have also refused to address safety concerns, which have increased as the social crisis in New York City has deepened and nationwide, as the Trump administration spearheads the dismantling of the public health infrastructure.

WSWS reporters spoke with striking nurses on the picket line at New York Presbyterian Monday about the conditions that have provoked this struggle and the political issues behind them.

A nurse at New York Presbyterian pointed to the atrocious staffing levels and the impacts on care. “Currently, we have patients that wait in the recovery room for up to two days because they’re willing to pack them in, but they’re not willing to account for how many beds are in the hospital. And that results in patients waiting, that results in patients suffering, and it results in nurses not being able to help you.

“I think it’s incredibly inappropriate to make massive cuts to health. Why should nurses not have healthcare, while we are working during COVID conditions, while we’re working during extreme influenza conditions, while the EDs are packed? Your family members should not be sitting in the recovery room next to somebody with influenza when your family member just waited six months to a year to get a solid organ transplant. That is a gift, and you should not have to squander it because the hospital decides that you are not important.”

Hey everyone, PGY-1 here at an NYC hospital. There’s supposedly a nursing strike starting on Monday at my hospital - does anyone have experience with prior strikes and what this means for our schedules or duties?

Also I have to ask if this is correct - one of the negotiation updates on the hospital website said that the average NYSNA (the nursing union) nurse is paid $162,000 for 10 days of work per month, and the union request is that this increases to $254,000 for the same amount of work. Am I the only one who thinks this is insane? Even $162,000 for 10 working days sounds crazy high. Or at least in comparison to the ~$85,000 I get for working 27 days a month. Lol

NYSNA just gave notice - I don’t care which side you’re on, I just don’t want agencies fleecing nurses.

USN paying $100/hr MedSol is paying $100 for the first 40, $250 after that and if they come to an agreement before MedSol pays you $2,000.

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Is the strike still on? I read an article where the hospitals are trying to paint the nurses out to be the bad guys saying; they are willing to desert their patients and decided to strike after only one day of negotiations. I heard the 16th was the day the strike is to start but haven’t heard much else.

Around 3years ago I was to start at a hospital in NYC and they delayed my start date because of a potential strike. But when I started they had just won and we all got a 10% raise. I heard they are trying to do away with the ratios.

Any updates?

21,000 nurses across 15 hospitals (12 in NYC, 3 on Long Island) have delivered their 10-day strike notice.

21,000 NYSNA nurses in downstate New York have submitted their 10-day strike notice. 15 hospitals (12 in NYC, 3 in Long Island).

Some of the hospitals are advertising regular travel contracts for the strike. DO NOT BE FOOLED. If you don't want to cross the picket line, avoid these hospitals.

12 NYC hospitals may go on strike, potentially in early 2026. Some of the hospitals are preemptively hiring travelers, at times not even telling them that they are being hired specifically for a possible strike.

I know there are a lot of differing, fiery opinions on travel nurses being hired as strikebreakers/scabs during a nursing strike. I'm not really here to argue about that. However, for those who don't want to potentially cross a picket line, these are the NYC hospitals to avoid signing contracts with for the next coming months:

* BronxCare Health System

* The Brooklyn Hospital Center

* Flushing Hospital Medical Center

* Interfaith Medical Center / One Brooklyn Health

* Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center / One Brooklyn Health

* Maimonides Medical Center

* Montefiore Medical Center

* Mount Sinai Hospital

* Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West

* NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center

* Richmond University Medical Center

* Wyckoff Heights Medical Center