{"id":124598,"date":"2026-02-06T01:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:02:07","slug":"13-nurses-arrested-for-blocking-nyc-building-as-strike-against-three-hospitals-reaches-25th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124598\/","title":{"rendered":"13 nurses arrested for blocking NYC building as strike against three hospitals reaches 25th day"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of 13 striking New York nurses<\/a> was arrested Thursday after they linked arms and refused to budge from in front of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, according to cops and witnesses.<\/p>\n

NYPD officers cuffed the demonstrating medical workers without incident in front of 555 West 57th Street \u2014 where lobbyists for three Big Apple hospital systems are located \u2014 according to footage put online by the New York State Nurses Association.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt really spoke to the urgency \u2013 that we need better pay, better safety, better benefits, to the point that we\u2019re willing to get arrested for it. We\u2019re not professional protesters, we\u2019re professional nurses,\u201d said Rosa, a med-surg nurse.<\/p>\n

13 New York nurses were arrested after linking arms and refusing to budge from being in front of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper during the ongoing nurses\u2019 strikes. New York State Nurses Association<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is uncharted territory. None of the women who got arrested have ever been arrested before, I guarantee you. Watching them get taken away, it hit me how far this has gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 15,000 nurses have been on strike since Jan. 12 as they spar with New York-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospitals for a new contract.<\/p>\n

The two sides have argued over various issues, including pay, worker safety and staffing levels during the nearly month-long work stoppage.<\/p>\n

The union said the protest that led to the arrests was against two pro-hospital lobbying groups: the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes (LVHH) and the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA).<\/p>\n

Charges against the 13 arrested nurses were pending with the NYPD telling The Post that officers gave the striking workers multiple warnings to move away.<\/p>\n

The nurses linked arms during the protest, according to bystanders. <\/p>\n

A video online by the New York State Nurses Association shows NYPD officers arresting the nurses. New York State Nurses Association<\/p>\n

A witness, 25-year-old Patrick Reilly, said the protest was \u201cpretty textbook civil disobedience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one screamed or struggled. A few people cried,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was really brave \u2013 a badass move for nurses. It was a little surreal seeing them get taken away in zip ties. One of them reminded me of my mom, who\u2019s a nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at 555 West 57th Street. New York State Nurses Association<\/p>\n

NYSNA said in a statement that they rallied outside the building \u201cso that greedy hospital executives, billionaire board members, and their lobbyists could hear and see our resolve loud and clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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LVHH declined to comment.<\/p>\n

A GNYHA spokesperson scoffed at the protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll have to ask NYSNA leadership what the purpose of that event was, but it was not good faith bargaining,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

As the strike<\/a> goes on, there is a tentative agreement on artificial intelligence protections at all hospitals, as well as several more tentative deals on local hospital issues, the union said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of 13 striking New York nurses was arrested Thursday after they linked arms and refused to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,26920,57,9,24,23187,56,63,65,64,23289,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-124598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-labor-strikes","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nurses","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-strikes","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124598","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=124598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}