It’s day eight of a historic strike among New York City’s nurses, with nearly 15,000 walking off the job last Monday.<\/p>\n
Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, and Montefiore are asking for higher pay, an increase in staff to manage patients, fully funded benefits and better workplace protections against violence for its members.<\/p>\n
As tensions escalate between the private hospitals and thousands of their employees, negotiations are stalled.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, nurses joined together in chorus even in the snow, calling for their demands to be met.<\/p>\n
Today, striking nurses will raise their voices again, and give back at the city-run George Washington Carver Houses, providing free community health screenings from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.<\/p>\n
Rev. Al Sharpton will also join nurses at the picket line at 3:30 p.m. at Mount Sinai Morningside.<\/p>\n
Nurses on other picket lines will be hosting a family day, inviting family and community members to join them on the picket line.<\/p>\n
While nurses remain away from their patients, operations continue with the help of traveling nurses secured by hospitals.<\/p>\n
But it’s unclear how long this may go on as they bridge the gap for the thousands who walked off the job.<\/p>\n
All of the hospitals impacted by the strike have stressed that they will remain open.<\/p>\n
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