Over 150 doctors on strike at NYC hospital demanding better pay
New York: About 160 resident physicians went on strike Monday over what they called low pay at New York City's Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public hospital once known as the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
The doctors-in-training at the Queen's Hospital, who are employed by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, are the first doctors to go on strike in the city since 1990, according to their labor union, the Committee of Interns and Residents local of the Service Employees International Union.
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Mount Sinai "refuses to pay us the same as our coworkers doing the exact same job at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan," Dr Joya Dupre, a second-year internal medicine resident at Elmhurst, said in a union statement. "It feels, fundamentally, like Mount Sinai is saying that this community does not matter. Like we as Elmhurst residents do not matter, as largely immigrant, union doctors."
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