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Even as NY nurses return to work, more strikes could follow

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FILE - Zach Clapp, a nurse in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU at Mount Sinai Hospital signs a board demanding safe staffing during a rally by NYSNA nurses from NY Presbyterian and Mount Sinai, Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in New York. Negotiations to keep 10,000 New York City nurses from walking off the job headed Friday, Jna. 6, 2023, into a final weekend as some major hospitals braced for a potential strike by sending ambulances elsewhere and transferring such patients as vulnerable newborns. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as 7,000 nurses return to work at two of New York’s busiest hospitals after a three-day strike, colleagues around the country say it’s just a matter of time before frontline workers at other hospitals begin walking the picket line. Problems are mounting at hospitals across the nation, which are facing widespread health care staffing shortages, overworked nurses beaten down from a pandemic that’s brought years of death and illness, and a busted pipeline of new nurses coming from nursing school. Nursing union strikes were on the rise last year, and union officials in California say they expect two strikes at hospitals this year from nursing staff.

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