‘No shortage of wealth’: Mamdani, other Democrats chide NYC hospital executives over nurses’ strike - POLITICO

There is no shortage of wealth in the health care industry, especially so at the three privately operated hospital groups at which nurses are striking," Mamdani said Monday at the picket line outside New York-Presbyterian's upper Manhattan hospital campus. "But for too many of the 15,000 NYSNA nurses who are on strike, they are not able to make their ends meet." 

Mamdani's framing aligns with the union's strategy of focusing on hospital executives' seven- and eight-figure pay packages throughout its contract campaign. The union launched a website called "NYC Hospital Greed" to highlight the substantial sums going to hospital leaders, including Montefiore CEO Philip Ozuah's $16.4 million compensation package from 2023, and projects like Mount Sinai's $100 million artificial intelligence center...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/13/no-shortage-of-wealth-lawmakers-chide-nyc-hospital-executives-over-nurses-strike-00724577 

 

Nearly 15,000 nurses go on strike at top New York City hospitals - POLITICO

… demanding salary increases to account for inflation while fighting to maintain protections against understaffing that they won after a three-day strike three years ago. They are also calling for new contract provisions on artificial intelligence and workplace violence...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/12/thousands-of-new-york-city-hospital-nurses-go-on-strike-00721612 

 

 

Anti-Vaxxers Protest At Hospitals While Stressed Nurse Shares Experience

A stressed nurse shared her experience attending to people in the ICU while anti-vaxxers across North America are protesting at hospitals.
https://youtu.be/dUgd4lQE3b0

In front of White House, nurses read names of colleagues killed by coronavirus - The Washington Post

Wearing masks and standing six feet apart, they held up photographs of victims.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/nurses-read-names-of-colleagues-who-died-of-the-coronavirus-in-front-of-the-white-house/2020/04/21/fc93184c-83e6-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html

Nurses speak out in powerful AFT ad: 'We are doing our job. It's time for the president to do his'

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) launched a new set of television and online advertisements featuring healthcare workers slamming Donald Trump for his March 29 statement, which implied nurses and other healthcare workers were stealing masks. This was just one of the almost relentless lies Trump has told in hope of deflecting his administration’s complete failure to stem our country’s current public health and economic crises. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/4/14/1937201/-Nurses-speak-out-in-powerful-new-AFT-ad-We-are-doing-our-job-It-s-time-for-the-president-do-his

A Major Medical Staffing Company Just Slashed Benefits for Doctors and Nurses Fighting Coronavirus — ProPublica

Alteon Health, a staffing company backed by private-equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners, will cut salaries, time off and retirement benefits for providers, citing lost revenue. Several hospital operators announced similar cuts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/coronavirus-er-doctors-nurses-benefits

Why people choose medically assisted death revealed through conversations with nurses - The Conversation US

Nurses who surround the process of medically assisted dying are an important source of insight into the real conversations our society needs to have about what it's really like.....
https://theconversation.com/why-people-choose-medically-assisted-death-revealed-through-conversations-with-nurses-122000

Doctors in Quebec oppose pay raises, say the money should go to overworked nurses - ThinkProgress.org

More than 750 physicians, residents, and medical students in Quebec signed an online petition asking that a recent hike in their salaries be canceled and that the funds go, instead, to overburdened nurses and patients in need of health care. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/doctors-quebec-pay-raise-overworked-nurses-4cf8c444a7a8/

The robot-proof job men aren't taking

Nursing is the job of the future. So why have men stayed away?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOT0GOyw2pY&feature=youtu.be

Nurses returning from Puerto Rico accuse the federal government of leaving people to die - Vox

"We cannot be silent while millions of people continue to endure these conditions."...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/26/16553748/puerto-rico-nurses-fema