{"id":121118,"date":"2026-02-03T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121118\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:56:45","slug":"nurses-strike-marches-across-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121118\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses Strike Marches Across Manhattan\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5712\" height=\"3213\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_0026-2.webp.webp\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"img_0026-2\" wpb-att-id=\"442968\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5712\" height=\"3213\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_0026-2.webp.webp\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"img_0026-2\" wpb-att-id=\"442968\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5712\" height=\"3213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_0026-2.webp.webp\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"img_0026-2\" wpb-att-id=\"442968\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"featuredImageCaption\">Photo: 77 WABC, Nino DeNino<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"146\" data-end=\"451\">(New York, New York) \u2013 The ongoing NYC nurses strike spilled into the streets of Manhattan as striking healthcare workers marched through busy corridors chanting, \u201cNo hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,\u201d drawing fresh attention \u2014 and controversy \u2014 to a labor dispute that has increasingly taken on political overtones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden wp-image-442967\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_0019-451x338.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"254\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-442967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_0019-451x338.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"254\"\/>Photo: 77 WABC, Nino DeNino<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"813\">Members of the New York State Nurses Association were seen rallying and chanting as they moved through Manhattan, combining demands tied to staffing levels, working conditions, and pay with broader social and immigration-related messages. The chants echoed through multiple blocks, briefly disrupting traffic and drawing mixed reactions from onlookers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"815\" data-end=\"1156\">The strike, which has already strained hospital operations across the city, continues with no immediate resolution in sight. Critics argue the messaging risks alienating patients and the public, while supporters say nurses are using their platform to stand for what they describe as human dignity and inclusivity alongside workplace reforms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1377\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">As negotiations remain stalled, the demonstrations underscore how the nurses strike has evolved beyond hospital corridors \u2014 becoming a visible, citywide flashpoint at the intersection of labor, healthcare, and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: 77 WABC, Nino DeNino (New York, New York) \u2013 The ongoing NYC nurses strike spilled into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-121118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121118","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=121118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}