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ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK: After the hospitals agreed to resolve a staffing shortage and upgrade working conditions, more than 7,000 nurses at two of New York City’s most renowned hospitals ended their three-day strike on Thursday.
Nurses call off strike
The Nurses Association of New York State said that “tentative” deals were reached with Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. The union said that nurses won “concrete enforceable safe staffing ratios.”
Montefiore also agreed to give a 19 percent pay hike over three years, in addition to adding more nurses in the emergency rooms. Mount Sinai said it was a “fair and responsible” agreement.
The two hospitals went without nursing staff on Monday as over 7,000 nurses went on strike due to staffing shortages, unsafe working conditions, and low pay. The walkout disrupted patient care, with the hospitals postponing non-emergency surgeries and telling many ambulances to go elsewhere
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