Over 150 doctors on strike at NYC hospital demanding better pay

Mount Sinai released a statement Monday saying it was "working towards an equitable and reasonable resolution that is in the best interest for both our residents at Elmhurst as well as for the Mount Sinai Health System." It also said it was working with Elmhurst on contingency plans to ensure patient care is not affected by the strike.

The resident physicians and Mount Sinai have been in negotiations for nearly a year. A five-day strike is planned.

Pay has been the major sticking point. The union says first-year Mount Sinai resident physicians working at Elmhurst are making about USD 7,000 less annually than their peers working at Mount Sinai's main campus in Manhattan.

Also Monday, the union announced that another 500 resident physicians at Mount Sinai Morningside/West in Manhattan have authorized a strike, also over pay.

Elmhurst was among several city hospitals overrun by the coronavirus when the pandemic began. Medical staff at Elmhurst described gasping patients arriving — seemingly nonstop — ventilators running low, and death totals so high that a refrigerated morgue truck had to be stationed outside.

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