Breaking: Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals on strike over contract negotiations.
We are hours away from the deadline for contract negotiations between New York hospitals and their nurses union.But so far, the terms for more than 7,000 other nurses are still unsettled. Those nurses work at the main Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.The sides are certainly in the 11th hour of negotiations.
"It is an issue that our employers have ignored, made excuses about, and fought us against every time," said Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association."Our bosses created the understaffing crisis by failing to hire and retain enough forces at our facilities."
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