Nurses at three city hospitals said they will launch a strike within weeks if the medical centers continue to ignore their demands to address staffing shortages that put patients at risk. Nurses overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike affecting more than 10,000 registered nurses in New York City at three hospital systems: Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center.
Olean General Hospital nurses say their understaffing has reached crisis levels, while hospital officials deny such a crisis exists and say the nurses’ efforts are part of a larger political agenda. The Olean chapter of the New York State Nurses Association, which represents approximately 200 registered nurses at OGH, announced this week it is circulating a petition demanding the OGH administration “fix the staffing crisis once and for all.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to implement sweeping, harmful changes to Title X, the nation’s only program focused on providing birth control, cancer screenings, sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment, and other reproductive health care for those with low incomes.
Administrators at St. Luke's Hospital say they'll continue to object to the vote last November in favor of unionizing nurses at the hospital. They plan to take their objections all the way to Washington. Region One of the National Labor Relations Board had dismissed complaints filed by Southcoast C-E-O Keith Hovan and other administrators that the union election had issues of voter fraud and misinformation.
According to the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence, 1 in 6 women in Florida will suffer a sexual assault during their lives. That's why nurses from around the state are training this week to be the first responders for women who've gone through the unthinkable.
You might have seen the hundreds of nurses and their supporters rallying in Riverfront Park on Monday afternoon. They want the community to know about negotiations with Providence Sacred Heart and why there's still no contract. Over the course of four months, Providence and nurses still haven't reached an agreement. Those nurses say they're concerned about future pay, time off, and the overall quality of healthcare they'll be able to give their patients.