Weeks after going on strike at two private hospitals in New York City, a nurses’ union is calling on the city’s public hospitals to commit to paying its members salaries comparable to what they now make in the private sector.
The New York State Nurses Association recently laid out its demand in a letter to the city’s Health + Hospitals network. It is based on contracts negotiated last month with several private hospitals that ended in pay increases and assurances of better staffing.
“If you don’t have pay parity between the private sections and the public section, we’ll never be able to attract nurses to work at H+H,” Nancy Hagans, the union’s president, told the Daily News on Wednesday.
