NEW YORK — Politicians are piling on criticism of New York City hospitals as executives scramble to weather a historic nurses strike.
Nearly 15,000 nurses walked out Monday at some of the city’s largest private hospitals — including Montefiore Medical Center and multiple New York-Presbyterian and Mount Sinai Health System locations — after months of stalled negotiations over pay raises, health insurance coverage and understaffing penalties.
The New York State Nurses Association and a host of influential political allies, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, are laying the blame at hospital executives’ feet.
Now, the article provides some numbers, and links to the NYSNA site which says 20,000 nurses are represented by them.
The article states that the hospital systems can’t afford to give the nurses what amounts to be $4,500 compensation increase. Doing some simple multiplication brings us to $90,000,000. The hospital systems have reportedly spent $100,000,000 preparing for this strike by hiring temps and whatnot.
$100,000,000 is greater than $90,000,000, so we can see exactly what the hospital executives actually care about here.
They’re considering it a one-time payment to disrupt the nurses’ labour power. The $90M price tag is yearly, which makes it … checks notes … too many dollhairs to be taken away from the oligarch class.