{"id":97449,"date":"2026-01-12T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:06:06","slug":"new-york-city-nurses-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97449\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Nurses Go on Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: New York City Nurses Go on Strike<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>New York City Nurses Go on StrikeNearly 15,000 nurses at major New York City hospitals went on strike on Monday, demanding more robust staffing levels, higher pay and better safety precautions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Chanting: \u201cIf we don\u2019t get it \u2014 shut it down! \u201cHow can we as nurses be inside taking care of patients when we don\u2019t have health care? We need to have good health care so we stay strong, so we can go in there day after day. Nursing is a 24\/7 job. We don\u2019t get a break. We\u2019re there to take care of these patients, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do. But we need the health care to do that.\u201d \u201cAll parties must return immediately to the negotiating table and not leave. They must bargain in good faith.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s right.\u201d \u201cAnd they must arrive at a deal that is satisfactory to all, that allows the nurses who work in this city to live in this city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A group of women dressed in winter coats wearing red scarves chant and hold signs, one reading &quot;Ask for a REAL NURSE&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/12met-nurses-strike-photos-01-mbqv-threeByTwoMediumAt2X-v3.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Nearly 15,000 nurses at major New York City hospitals went on strike on Monday, demanding more robust staffing levels, higher pay and better safety precautions.<\/p>\n<p>By Meg Felling<\/p>\n<p>January 12, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: New York City Nurses Go on Strike transcript Back transcript New York City Nurses Go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7341,3663,3415,9,11,10,11801,5538,45091,45090,10845],"class_list":{"0":"post-97449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-accidents-and-safety","9":"tag-hospital","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nursing","15":"tag-nycnew-york-city","16":"tag-records-and-achievements","17":"tag-strikes-labor","18":"tag-wages-and-salaries"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97449","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=97449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}