Nearly 15,000 nurses at several of New York City’s major hospitals went on strike on Monday over pay, as well as staffing and security issues.
The strike “could be one of the biggest labor showdowns in the city’s health care industry in decades,” the New York Times reported. A union representing nurses said the strike is designed to pressure hospitals to uphold staffing ratios to make sure nurses are not overloaded with patients, and to ensure higher wages and more security at facilities to combat violent incidents and shootings.
The strike is impacting some of the Big Apple’s top private medical institutions, including New York…
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