Thousands Of Nurses Strike At NYC Hospitals

NEW YORK (AP) – Thousands of nurses have gone on strike at two of New York City’s major hospitals. The walkout began Monday after contract negotiations stalled over staffing and salaries nearly three years into the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 3,500 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and about 3,600 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan are off the job. The privately owned, nonprofit hospitals are postponing nonemergency surgeries, diverting ambulances to other medical centers and pulling in temporary staffers. Talks at are set to resume Monday afternoon at Montefiore, but there’s no immediate word on when bargaining might resume at Mount Sinai.