{"id":97758,"date":"2026-01-12T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97758\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:51:08","slug":"striking-nurses-picket-outside-bronx-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97758\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking Nurses Picket Outside Bronx Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City nurses walked out of hospitals and went on strike on Monday, January 12, in protest of \u201cunfair labor practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nurses affiliated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysna.org\/press\/hospitals-force-nearly-15000-nysna-nurses-out-largest-nurse-strike-new-york-city-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York State Nurses Association;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York State Nurses Association<\/a> (NYSNA) \u2013 nearly 15,000 people, according to the organization \u2013 walked out and began picketing at 6 am on Monday, saying they are seeking improved safety measures for workers and patients, and the maintenance of health care benefits for employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAfter months of bargaining, management refused to make meaningful progress on core issues that nurses have been fighting for: safe staffing for patients, healthcare benefits for nurses, and workplace violence protections, forcing nearly 15,000 nurses out on the largest nurse strike in New York City history,\u201d NYSNA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cManagement at the richest hospitals in New York City are threatening to discontinue or radically cut nurses\u2019 health benefits. These cuts would impact not just striking nurses at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Morningside and West and NewYork-Presbyterian, but nearly 27,000 nurses at over 50 hospitals around the state who are enrolled in NYSNA\u2019s health benefit plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nynurses\/videos\/4393585440888743\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:held a press conference;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">held a press conference<\/a> featuring words from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York Attorney General Letitia James, New York State AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento, and other government officials and labor leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video filmed by Diane Mejias shows picketers marching outside Montefiore Medical Center\u2019s Einstein Campus in the Bronx on Monday. Credit: Diane Mejias via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City nurses walked out of hospitals and went on strike on Monday, January 12, in protest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,38979,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-97758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nysna","13":"tag-the-bronx","14":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","15":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97758","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=97758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}