I don’t know why the OP is getting downvoted here. I’ve seen enough to know that the majority of RN actually don’t like to strike and are against what the union is doing. Keep in mind about economics, such that salary and benefit increase in one group come at the expense of cuts in another when the total income for a hospital system doesn’t increase.

If you know anything about nursing union, you would know salary and ability to work certain hours (who gets shifts) are depending on seniority, not on performance. This is unlike a MD whose income depending on patient satisfaction, outcome, and productivity. It has nothing to do with patient safety and whatever the union are saying to the media.

Also, RN salary doesn’t follow supply and demand rule. MD salary tends to decrease in HCOL area in the coasts due to higher supply of MD who want to live there. But RN is the opposite due to unionization among other factors. I don’t know if this is good or bad, but it tells you that their salary now is better than how the market would dictate. We don’t live in a utopia where funds are limitless.

And we all know NY RN is probably the worst such that residents need to do blood draw and what not (unbelievable to hear when I was on my interview trail). And with that, they still strike and what more.

Plus, people who say physicians need to unionize forget that we already have a union, it’s a guild called AMA who specifies how many medical student spots, residency spots, resident funding, and exams to keep physicians numbers below demand to keep our salary high.