Doctors Strike at Major NYC Hospital System Over Pay Disparities

Early-career doctors at a safety-net hospital in Queens are striking for five days demanding pay parity with their counterparts in Manhattan.
More than 150 trainee doctors went on strike at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, the first physician strike at a hospital in New York City in more than 30 years.
The strike is due to the fact that trainee doctors are generally paid less working at a public hospital in Queens, where they care for poor patients, than their counterparts are paid at wealthier Manhattan institutions.
resident physicians at Elmhurst Hospital Center went on strike over low pay.
They are employed by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.