Today's New York Times online carries a piece about the tensions at a few New York City hospitals over nursing contracts:
The largest union of nurses in New York City is voicing dismay that contracts at four large hospitals expired weeks ago without a new agreement being reached.Though the nurses have not threatened to strike, their frustration has been aggravated by their belief that the hospitals — St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, St. Luke's-Roosevelt hospitals and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia — should be generous in their contract offers in light of the nationwide nursing shortage.
Read the full piece here.