Mayor Adams intervenes in doctors’ plan to strike at city hospitals

January 3, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Photo: Seth Wenig/AP File photo

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CONEY ISLAND AND CITYWIDE — DOCTORS ON STAFF AT THE CITY’S PUBLIC HOSPITALS, including one in Coney Island, have been asked to return to the mediation table and begin a 60-day cooling off period, according to a letter that Mayor Eric Adams sent on Friday, Jan. 3 to the Doctors SEIU Council and private health care providers requesting that they avert a strike. Mayor Adams is asking the doctors, which include those several at NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health, and Doctors Council physicians who are employed by private affiliated health care providers, to engage in a mediation process to avert a strike that would affect three other public hospitals as well. Offering the assistance of the New York City Office of Labor Relations and its commissioner, Renee Campion, the Adams administration urges that this mediation process be part of a “cooling off period” during which all of the parties attempt to resolve their differences and avoid disrupting health care being delivered to thousands of patients across the five boroughs. Mayor Adams’ letter also requests that the parties halt any further action towards a strike throughout this 60-day period, that all parties select a “mutually agreeable mediator, and that they respond by end-of-business day Monday, Jan. 6.

Physicians at these sites are employed by Physician Affiliate Group of New York (Jacobi, North Central Bronx, and South Brooklyn) and Mt. Sinai (Queens), which contracts with NYC Health + Hospitals to provide physician services. They issued a strike notice on Thursday.

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