7,000 nurses on strike in New York want more coworkers — not just higher pay: 'If we get paid better, but the conditions don't improve, we won't stay'

Jan 9 2023 by Business Insider

 
Nurses at Mount Sinai in Manhattan are on strike.

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Thousands of nurses are on strike in New York City, calling for safer staffing. Nurses told Insider that short staffing weighs on them as providers, and hurts patients. The strike means some procedures are rescheduled, and patients transferred to different hospitals.

When the pandemic hit, Philipp Carabuena says ten of his coworkers left within two months. 

Carabuena works in the neurological ICU at Mount Sinai Hospital...

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