Author: newyork-news
Nurses on day two of the nurses stike exterior Mount Sinai Hospital. Picture by Lloyd Mitchell The most important nurses’ strike in NYC historical past continued on Monday, even after 13 hanging nurses had been arrested throughout a protest in Midtown final week. Though the nurses weren’t on the picket line on Feb. 7 and eight as a result of excessive chilly, contract talks resumed with vital progress reported all through the weekend. The nurses, represented by the New York State Nurses Affiliation (NYSNA), reportedly secured improved staffing ratios in a number of areas of Montefiore within the Bronx, one…
A gaggle of firefighters search the stays of the destroyed World Commerce Heart in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. Greater than 400 firefighters have died of 9/11-related sicknesses almost 25 years after the assaults. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Hundreds of New Yorkers who survived the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults 25 years in the past are struggling the results of being at or close to Floor Zero years later. And but, the solutions as to how and why they’re sick stay elusive. Twenty-five years later, the survivors, their households and their attorneys nonetheless would not have entry to all the information…