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.
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.