Even as NY nurses return to work, more strikes could follow
By AMANDA SEITZ
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as 7,000 nurses return to work at two of New York’s busiest hospitals after a three-day strike, colleagues around the country say it’s just a matter of time before frontline workers at other hospitals begin walking the picket line. Problems are mounting at hospitals across the nation. They’re facing widespread staffing shortages, overworked nurses beaten down from a pandemic that’s brought years of death and illness, and a busted pipeline of new nurses coming from nursing school. Nursing union strikes were on the rise last year, and union officials in California say they expect two strikes at hospitals this year from nursing staff.
