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☆ New York nurses strike: Key takeaways
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —The 7,000 nurses who went on strike in New York Monday say the 19% pay hike that hospital management offered them was never the main issue. And so thousands of nurses went on strike with no end in sight. The overall effect on the New York hospital system appear to be minor so far, according to a city official. While the union and Montefiore are due back at the bargaining table Monday afternoon, no new talks are scheduled as of midday for Mount Sinai. The union says Mount Sinai and Montefiore have severe staffing problems and need to do more than the others to improve patient care and work conditions.

☆ 7,000 nurses on strike in New York want more coworkers — not just higher pay: 'If we get paid better, but the conditions don't improve, we won't stay'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Carabuena works in the neurological ICU at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Juliana Kaplan/Insider"Nurses don't want to strike," the New York States Nurses Association, the union representing workers, said in a statement. Management has already offered a 19.1% compounded wage increase to the striking nurses, both Montefiore and Mount Sinai said. We're prepared to minimize disruption, and we encourage Mount Sinai nurses to continue providing the world-class care they're known for, in spite of NYSNA's strike." Scabby the rat at the nurses' strike.

☆ Nurses at Mount Sinai Morningside and West reach tentative agreement as thousands of nurses still due to strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Celina Tebor Vanessa Yurkevich Ramishah Maruf Samantha Beech | Celina Tebor | Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Nurses at two other area hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Bronx, are still due to strike after not reaching agreements. The new tentative agreement at Morningside and West brings the anticipated number of nurses to strike down from 8,700 to about 7,125. A Mount Sinai spokesperson told CNN on Saturday the hospital system is actively bargaining with the Mount Sinai Morningside and West campuses under separate union agreements. Another six will be transferred Sunday from the NICUs at Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West, the spokesperson said. “In addition, we have transferred close to 100 patients from the affected hospitals – The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside – to unaffected hospitals within the Mount Sinai system and partner hospitals in NYC and we continue to safely discharge patients who were schedule to go home.” All elective surgeries have been postponed, the spokesperson said.

☆ Amid negotiation gridlock between Mount Sinai Hospital and the nurse's union, newborns in intensive care are caught in the middle
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Celina Tebor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A NICU nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital told CNN that families of patients in the unit have been deeply concerned about moving their sick infants from one hospital to another. As of Saturday, negotiations across New York’s hospitals were continuing at Montefiore Bronx and the Mount Sinai Morningside and West campuses, according to the nurse’s union. But the president of the nurse’s union told reporters Saturday the main Mount Sinai Hospital complex left the bargaining table late Thursday and no further bargaining sessions have been scheduled since. A Mount Sinai Health System spokesperson told CNN that hospital management is “waiting for the union to come back to us” to resume negotiations. Tentative agreements have also been reached with union nurses at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island.

New York CNN —Famed Manhattan hospital Mount Sinai is moving newborns in their intensive care unit to other hospitals ahead of a planned New York nursing union strike. The impact is great.”But the union says management from the main Mount Sinai hospital campus walked away from the negotiating table just after midnight Friday — and also canceled bargaining sessions scheduled for the day. The union said it doesn’t know if Mount Sinai management plans to negotiate over the weekend. The five New York City hospitals set for the nursing strike Monday are Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, BronxCare and Flushing Hospital Medical Center. The Mount Sinai spokesperson did not comment on Hagan’s statement about management walking away from talks.

☆ More nurses reach tentative contract agreement, but negotiations at five hospitals continue
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Samantha Beech | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The tentative agreements are in addition to that reached Sunday for union nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. More than 1,300 nurses at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn have reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract, according to a statement from the NYSNA. A tentative deal has also been reached at the Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, the union said. Negotiations continue at BronxCare Health System, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Montefiore Bronx, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Mount Sinai Morningside and West. Mount Sinai announced it is starting to postpone some elective surgeries and appointments in preparation of the nurses strike.

☆ Russia stole from a Ukrainian crypt the bones of Catherine the Great's lover, the conqueror who annexed Crimea and inspired Putin
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The bones of Potemkin were removed from Kherson and taken deeper into Russian-occupied territory. Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover and played a key role in the annexation of Crimea in 1783. Potemkin's remains were removed from St. Catherine's Cathedral and taken deeper into Russian-occupied territory as Ukrainian forces move to retake Kherson. Sebag Montefiore, a historian and author of "Catherine the Great and Potemkin," said in tweets that Potemkin would've "loathed" Putin's "primitive" and "cruel nationalism." An attempt to quickly seize the Ukrainian capital fell apart, forcing Russia to concentrate its efforts on the east, where grinding artillery battles took their toll on both sides.

☆ A murit cunoscutul autor britanic John le Carre
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-14 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Autorul britanic, renumit mai ales pentru romanele bazate pe conflictele Războiului Rece, a scris 25 de romane şi un volum de memorii, The Pigeon Tunnel (2016) și a vândut în total peste 60 de milioane de cărţi în întreaga lume. S-a inspirat din cariera sa de agent secret, ruinată de agentul dublu britanic Kim Philby, care a fugit în URSS după ce a dezvăluit KGB-ului identitatea reală a multor colegi britanice inclusiv Le Carre. Presa a avut însă o altă opinie, a povestit el, şi a decis că romanul „nu este doar autentic, ci şi un fel de mesaj revelator venit din Partea Cealaltă". Autorul american de romane horror Stephen King a deplâns pe Twitter moartea unui "uriaş literar" şi "spirit umanitar". Scriitorul şi istoricul britanic Simon Sebag Montefiore a afirmat pe aceeaşi reţea socială că este "bulversat" de moartea unui "titan al literaturii engleze.

Persons: Kim Philby, Le Carre, John, Stephen King, britanic Simon Sebag Montefiore Organizations: KGB, Guardian Locations: Rece, URSS, Le, britanică, Bonn, Germania, britanic

„Cu mare tristeţe trebuie să anunţ că David Cornwell, cunoscut în lume sub numele John le Carré, a decedat după o scurtă boală (fără legătură cu Covid-19) în Cornwall sâmbătă seară, 12 decembrie 2020. Scriitorul britanic a fost considerat un maestru al romanului de spionaj, multe dintre lucrările sale fiind ecranizate pentru marile ecrane. În cariera sa, John le Carré a scris 25 de romane și un volum de memorii publicat în 2016, The Pigeon Tunnel. A fost însă nevoit să se retragă din MI6, după ce agentul dublu Kim Philby l-a deconspirat în fața KGB-ului, alături de mulți alți compatrioți. Ultimul său roman a fost Agent Running in the Field, publicat în 2019.

Persons: David Cornwell, John, Jonny Geller, Curtis Brown, Kim Philby, Stephen King, britanic Simon Sebag Montefiore Organizations: MI6, KGB Locations: Cornwall, Londra, britanic

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