{"id":104639,"date":"2026-01-19T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104639\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:52:07","slug":"rev-al-sharpton-to-join-striking-nyc-nurses-at-rally-on-mlk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104639\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Al Sharpton To Join Striking NYC Nurses At Rally On MLK Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Al Sharpton is standing with striking New York City nurses to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bOn Jan. 19, Sharpton and NYSNA will honor the King\u2019s legacy with a rally at Mount Sinai Morningside. \u00a0It\u2019s set to take place at 3:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bAccording to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysna.org\/press\/striking-nurses-honor-legacy-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-rallying-rev-al-sharpton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release,<\/a> \u201cStriking nurses will continue to picket on Monday, with a focus on family and service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200bFrom 11 AM to 1 PM, nurses will also provide free community health screenings at Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bNYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, BSN, CCRN, issued a statement about the rally.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNurses honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. His commitment to racial and economic justice by fighting for every patient to be treated like a VIP. Regardless of the color of their skin or their ability to pay. We are on strike for patient and nurse safety,\u201d Hagans wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u201cOur patients can\u2019t get the safe, quality care they need when there aren\u2019t enough nurses at the bedside. When we don\u2019t have protections from violence in our hospitals,\u201d she continued. \u201cNurses can\u2019t access their own healthcare to stay well on the job. On MLK Day and every day, we call on hospital executives to join us in our efforts to end health disparities. And settle fair contracts that keep patients and nurses safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCurrently, \u00a0New York City is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/16\/nyregion\/nyc-nurses-strike-negotiations-safety.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">witnessing<\/a> the largest nursing strike in its history. Approximately 15,000 nurses from the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) have walked off the job. The strike centered on three major private hospital systems: Mount Sinai, Montefiore Medical Center, and NewYork-Presbyterian. \u00a0A major issue is the union\u2019s demand for regulations on the use of artificial intelligence in clinical settings.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bLast week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood in support of the nurses.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt every one of our city\u2019s darkest periods, nurses showed up to work,\u201d Mamdani said at a news conference.\u201cTheir value is not negotiable, and their worth is not up for debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rev. Al Sharpton is standing with striking New York City nurses to commemorate Martin Luther King Day. \u200bOn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,23187,56,63,65,64,7153,47487],"class_list":["post-104639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nurses","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rally","tag-rev-al-sharpton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}