You are very wrong.

These nurses aren't in public hospitals. The Taylor Laws don't apply to them.

You are wrong. But do go on.

You have no idea what you're talking about, but you say it very boldly so I'll give you that.

Why did the hospital hire nurses who don't know how to work in a hospital setting? Travel nurses are brought into hospitals all the time. If they don't know what they're doing, because the administration is hiring inadequate nurses or not bothering to train them. They knew the strike was happening and they had tons of forewarning. There's no excuse.

Wow, great rebuttal. You are flatly wrong. A quick Google about what the nurses union listed as their main concern for the strike would answer the question for you.

>These people, all of them, killed a baby.

A hospital that understaffed their hospital may have led to the death of a child. There's one entity at fault here.

Nurses aren't slaves. They aren't saints either. They aren't required to stick around in unsafe situations and give their labor out of the goodness of their hearts. I know we all expect this of women especially and women dominated fields, but it's bullshit. These nurses went on strike because the hospital refused to have safe staffing ratios. The nurses were yelling outside the building that patients are in danger because of the ratios. If anyone died because of that it's because of the hospital administrators. Period.

Do you not know that nurses were brought in and paid high wages while the rest were on strike? Hospitals weren't left empty. Read a minute of information about what you're talking about before you comment I beg you.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Nurses went on strike because they recognized they had unsafe staffing ratios. Meaning there was one nurse for 20 patients in some cases. If the hospital chose to continue to understaff during the strike, they are fully liable for anything that happened. Not only that, they proved the nurses were right in the first place. People die when there aren't enough nurses to tend to them.

The press should absolutely cover that the hospital...which was already understaffing...which is why people went on strike...went ahead and continued to understaff during this crisis which may have led to the death of a child. Meaning the nurses were absolutely correct to strike and everything they said was 100% right.

These hospitals couldn't even be bothered to pretend to create safe staffing ratios when staff went on strike because of unsafe staffing ratios. You can have an amazing staff of high quality nurses, but if you have only 1 of them to 20 patients, people will needlessly die.

Eric Adams put a bunch of former city council members in high commissioner positions for a reason. They know little to nothing about what their agencies actually do, but they'll be unendingly loyal because he rewarded them for their political endorsement a few years ago.

DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE WHO BEGAN THEIR CAREER 20 AND 30 YEARS AGO DON'T START AT THE SAME STARTING SALARY THAT PEOPLE DO NOW?!?

The city doesn't increase the salaries of veteran workers to be in parity with brand new hires as a rule. There are people who began here making $25k (or less) when they started. There are people who have worked here for decades making an hourly wage and are still only making $18/hr.

It's accessible to people have have the time to commute there and out of their way. I understand there's a lawsuit blocking Brooklyn licenses (BOOOO!) but come on, they have to find someplace for these not in the richest neighborhoods in Manhattan.

The irony of the first dispensaries exclusively opening in the richest whitest borough and neighborhoods in the city, when the entire program was supposedly delayed to ensure licenses went people who faced the most adversity.

What don't you understand about someone starting a job at a salary versus retiring at a salary?

I said I know someone who worked for the city for decades and their highest salary when they left was around there. Welcome to NYC civil service, people are paid like shit and cost of living increases don't keep pace with inflation.

People who do this deserve the harshest attempted manslaughter sentencing we can offer.

They can't go on strike thanks to the Taylor Laws. It's illegal for public workers to go on strike in New York, even when part of a union. We only let NYPD go on silent strikes and work stoppages because, let's be honest, who's gonna stop them?

>Does the new health plan cost more

It costs more when a cheaper insurance plan covers less services and fewer doctors accept it.

Because city workers are no longer guaranteed quality healthcare upon retirement. They will get a worse health care package that costs then more, covers less and has less options for doctors. When you really think about it, this is just a ploy to help retired workers die sooner due to substandard care.

So watching all of this play out, who would a prospective worker faced with lower salary and no schedule flexibility choose this route? They'll ultimately end up with less funds saved to cover the out of pocket expenses than someone making $20k more at a similar job in the private sector.

Yes, they will. They will pay for more out of pocket because less will be covered. They will have fewer options for local doctors, meaning many may need to go out of network for specialty care. Medicare Advantage isn't Medicare, it's a private insurance company chosen because they intend to nickel and dime aging retirees who require more healthcare.

Most city unions who aren't cops or DOC officers have very little power in a city where it's illegal for city workers to go on strike.

People who retired in the last few years didn't begin at $41k. You're awfully naive if you think most city workers are being land market rate or are getting significant pay bumps just because they've worked for decades.

>most teachers are Republicans anyway

Lol citation needed

The irony is it costs way more to make people access services only in an emergency rather than allowing people access to affordable preventative medicine. The decline in benefits costs us all more in the long run.

>"Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor."

I think about this quote from the musical 1776 a lot. It explains American conservative voters pretty well. How else to explain how people living in impoverished states were pushing to end the Estate tax when Trump took office.

So how are the retirees on a fixed income who were promised these benefits supposed to absorb it? For perspective, this would only save $500 million a year. That is less than 2/3 of what we spent on NYPD overtime alone in 2022. There are ways we could save this money, but it's much easier to fuck over retirees I guess.