Mayor Mamdani just joined the nurses’ picket line – Latest News
In becoming a member of putting private-hospital nurses on the picket line Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani forgot that he’s the metropolis’s chief govt — and so half of the management the union is preventing.
The metropolis’s public hospitals, underneath NYC H+H , have already dedicated to matching the private-sector nurse contracts: The union opted to not strike in opposition to them out of PR calculations.
Yet the union’s calls for imply large hassle for metropolis taxpayers and Mamdani’s different spending plans.
After document pay hikes in the final contract, the NYS Nurses Association now need 10%-a-year will increase — up 33% over three years — whilst the metropolis’s public hospitals wrestle to stay afloat
Last month, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli warned that NYC H+H’s 11 acute-care hospitals and different health-care services face robust fiscal sledding amid ongoing deficits, lowered federal funding and a hovering share of sufferers who depend on Medicaid or no insurance coverage in any respect.
“My job as mayor is . . . to stand alongside the working people who stand with us every day, and to build a city where everyone can live a life of dignity,” Comrade Mamdani pontificated Monday morning.
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But the putting nurses already stay a “life of dignity” and are usually not “having difficulty making ends meet” — whereas their calls for threaten different working people’s wants.
The union’s ask would hike the average nurse’s wage from $162,000 to $272,000 per yr; it additionally objects to members being requested to contribute to their pensions, one thing most private-sector staff should do.
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Does the novice chief govt know that one alleged contract demand would defend drunken and stoned nurses from being fired? Whose “life with dignity” does that defend?
As in most labor disputes, management and the union are hurling all method of fees at one another; if he’s to be the mayor for all New Yorkers, Mamdani wants to remain out of the crossfire — not feed it.
If he retains taking part in no-skin-in-the-game activist at the expense of his day job, he’ll doom his mayoralty.
Early on, the knock on the final mayor was that he was nonetheless behaving like a borough president; this one will discover himself in worse hassle if he thinks he can keep taking part in responsibility-free state assemblyman.
