The Hospitals agreed to their money demands, they do not agree to the staffing demands. If they only cared about the money, the strike would not be happening.

It's not lack of pay, it's lack of nurses. NYSNA said as such, the time of empty promises is over. The ratio of nurses to patients is unsafe at nearly 20 to 1 at times. My job has almost 500 opening for nurses, it's a systematic choice they are making by refusing to staff accordingly. Unfortunately for them Nurses are much more irreplaceable than other positions so now the hospital is suffering due to their lack of care.

I work for a relatively large Hospital and was instructed that we need to make good faith efforts to post accurate salary ranges because we can, and will be audited. So if they are constantly posting $15 to $25 and everyone is hired at or close to $15, this would fail that. If we try to hire outside of our projected range, we need to leave a paper trail justifying why for auditing purposes. The law is new and I am sure there will be some adjusting but this is my current info.