Striking Nurses From Coast to Coast Stood Up to Corporate Forces and Won:
Nurses in New York, California, and Hawaii claimed big contract victories after showing ...
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U.S. Nurses End Strikes With Wage and Benefit GainsAccording to the report, stoppages in New York, California, and Hawaii ended between February 13 and 24.
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- New York’s strike peaked at about 15,000 nurses; three hospitals reached agreements, while 4,200 at a fourth struck through February 21.
- More than 30,000 Kaiser nurses and other health care workers in California and Hawaii ended a month-long strike on February 24.
- NYSNA said nurses at all four hospitals retained health and pension benefits, gaining higher wages, workplace-violence protections, and artificial-intelligence safeguards.
- Kaiser reportedly offered a 21.5 percent raise over four years, benefit preservation, and improved staff-to-patient ratios.
we wanted to make sure that our hospitals would say that ICE is not welcome in our facilities unless they had a judicial warrant.— Dania Muñoz, a nurse practitioner at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, describing why she pushed hospitals to say ICE is not welcome unless there is a judicial warrant.
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