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In New York City, 15,000 Nurses Are Still on Strike
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/nyc-nurses-strike-health-care
01.15.2026
By Luis Feliz Leon Sarah Hughes Danielle Smith
Fifteen thousand nurses across 10 campuses in New York City’s three biggest hospital systems are on an open-ended strike. Nurses say employers are trying to undermine safe-staffing protections and demanding concessions on nurses’ own health care benefits.
Fifteen thousand nurses across ten campuses in New York City’s three biggest hospital systems are on an open-ended strike. It’s the city’s largest nurse strike in decades.
Picket lines stretched for blocks at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York-Presbyterian hospitals on January 12, thronged with nurses plus Teamsters, hotel workers, and university staff showing solidarity.
At New York-Presbyterian, nurses in red hats blew whistles and waved clappers. The union’s printed signs read: “If nurses are outside, something is wrong inside!” Others scrawled on cardboard were more whimsical: “So bad even introverts are here!”
FULL story at link above.
Nurses say hospital administrators are demanding concessions on the nurses’ own health care and refusing to hear out union proposals. (Deb Cohn-Orbach / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)