Just pay the damn Nurses

[David64]

My Wife just got an e mail from a travel company. The kind that hires Nurses to travel to different hospitals because they are short handed and the contract usually lasts about 13 weeks.

This is for a hospital in New York state [ doesn't say which one } and there are several positions open, some of which are in Oncology and my Wife is Oncology certified.

Hang on to your hats folks...They're offering $10,500 for 5 - 12 hour shifts. They will pay for your airfare, hotel and meals for the full 5 days.

The reason they're so desperate....The Nurses are going on strike and they want people to come in and cover while they're out.

My Wife sent them a polite reply and I quote :

" Kiss my ass. I'm not crossing a picket line. Just pay the damn Nurses"

[UltraBudgie]

They are asking for $200K salaries, I heard.

I am going to go search and see if this is wrong and I will edit this post if it is.

Edit:

Nurses in New York City Say They Deserve $200,000 a Year. Here’s Why.

As a strike by health workers stretches into its second week, pay is a major issue in negotiations, even if it’s not discussed much on the picket line.

...The three hospital systems affected by the strike said their nurses on average make about $160,000 a year and are seeking raises that could propel nurses’ salaries on average past $200,000, according to the hospitals.

One hospital system, Mount Sinai, said that the financial demands originally made by the nurses’ union, known as NYSNA, would increase average pay to $275,000, an assertion that the union described as deceptive and a gross mischaracterization of its salary demands.

“From the very start, these negotiations have been primarily about NYSNA’s financial demands, plain and simple,” said Marc Kramer, the lead negotiator for Mount Sinai Hospital and the president of the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes of New York.

Since the start of the strike, nurses on the picket line and their union leaders have tended to minimize pay as a major reason for the labor action, instead highlighting other demands.

“If they were to move away from the money for just a second and look at the basic needs of human care, maybe they can see what we are fighting for,” said Johnaira Dilone-Florian, a nurse practitioner at Montefiore who was on the picket line on the third day of the strike....

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/nyreg...aises.html

Yeah, they want more money. It seems like a lot. I'm not saying they don't deserve it.

[David64]

They are asking for $200K salaries, I heard.

I am going to go search and see if this is wrong and I will edit this post if it is.

If you can, post which hospital. They won't list it in the e mail and they're not completely sure they ARE going to strike, so it said she'd have to be ready to travel at a moments notice.

ETA The e mail made it sound like an impending strike, but it seems it already happened, so they really must be hurting for Nurses.

[UltraBudgie]

If you can, post which hospital. They won't list it in the e mail and they're not completely sure they ARE going to strike, so it said she'd have to be ready to travel at a moments notice.

ETA The e mail made it sound like an impending strike, but it seems it already happened, so they really must be hurting for Nurses.

It is apparently at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian, according to the NYSNA press release on 1/12 announcing the strike:
https://www.nysna.org/press/hospitals-fo...ty-history

[DBCowboy]

My Wife just got an e mail from a travel company. The kind that hires Nurses to travel to different hospitals because they are short handed and the contract usually lasts about 13 weeks.

This is for a hospital in New York state [ doesn't say which one } and there are several positions open, some of which are in Oncology and my Wife is Oncology certified.

Hang on to your hats folks...They're offering $10,500 for 5 - 12 hour shifts. They will pay for your airfare, hotel and meals for the full 5 days.

The reason they're so desperate....The Nurses are going on strike and they want people to come in and cover while they're out.

My Wife sent them a polite reply and I quote :

" Kiss my ass. I'm not crossing a picket line. Just pay the damn Nurses"

My bride is a CVICU nurse.

She says she's overpaid.

[FredT]

My bride is a CVICU nurse.

She says she's overpaid.

So your joking right? Is she admin cause that what an admin would say? Or is it like an light CVICU that ships its sick patient out to a tertiary care center?  Nurses are vastly underpaid particularly in "Right to work" states that all but ban unions 

Also mind you that in the NYC strike the hospital system that is all but claiming poverty made $600 MILLION in 2024, and its CEO made over $25 MILLION in the same year. Not to mention almost 30+ people in the org making over 1 million and some of those are as high as 6. They also spent lavishly on executive travel and nearly 100 MILLION on traveling nurses (you drop that much on travel nurses and you have a place nurses do not want to work regularly)Don't take my word on it either this info. It comes from the IRS 990 they have to file as a "Non Profit" 

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofi...06204/full

But hey many in those states don't have the courage to stand up for themselves supply the scabs that come in during the strikes.  

Yes I am an RN for over 3 decades PICU/CVICU and Peds CCT

[FredT]

My Wife sent them a polite reply and I quote :

" Kiss my ass. I'm not crossing a picket line. Just pay the damn Nurses"

Awesome!!!!!!   Scabs are the lowest form of bottom feeder

[DBCowboy]

 

Yes I am an RN for over 3 decades PICU/CVICU and Peds CCT

Good for you.

I'm just a biomed.

*shrugs*

Wife was never in management.  She's always been a floor nurse, ALSO for 30 years.

[FredT]

Good for you.

I'm just a biomed.

*shrugs*

Wife was never in management.  She's always been a floor nurse, ALSO for 30 years.

Awesome and she is a rare super rare nurse who should be paid her worth. Hospitals have prayed on nurses NOT knowing their value since the dawn of the profession and that has to stop

[argentus]

I know 17 nusrses due to my various vascular and arterial woes.   They are all fabulous people and are all vastly underpaid.   They are all collectively struggling financially and wondering why they elected to move here.   The majority of them have moved from South Africa to here in the Cayman Islands, next are those from Jamaica, and then those from the Phillipines.   

They were told they would make a good living here, but they are all having a difficult time.  

I have researched nurse wagers around the world.    It is my opinion that for what they do, they are all underpaid and  many, but not all, doctors overpaid.