{"id":98922,"date":"2026-01-13T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:36:08","slug":"nyc-nurses-strike-enters-second-day-as-hospitals-move-to-fill-labor-gaps-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98922\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC nurses strike enters second day as hospitals move to fill labor gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/thousands-of-nurses-go-on-strike-at-several-major-nyc-hospitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands of New York City nurses<\/a> returned to the picket lines Tuesday as\u00a0their strike\u00a0targeting some of the city\u2019s leading hospital systems entered its second day.<\/p>\n<p>Union officials say <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/major-nyc-hospital-accuses-nurses-union-of-protecting-drunk-stoned-staffers-as-thousands-go-on-strike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">roughly 15,000 nurses walked<\/a> off the job Monday morning at multiple campuses of three hospital systems: NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia, Montefiore Medical Center, and Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n<p>The affected hospitals have hired droves of temporary nurses to try to fill the labor gap. <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of New York City nurses returned to the picket lines Tuesday as\u00a0their strike\u00a0targeting some of the city\u2019s leading hospital systems entered its second day. Victor M Matos\/TheNEWS2 via ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Picketers hold signs outside the entrance to Mount Sinai Hospital on Monday, January 12, 2026, in New York City. IPA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Both nurses and hospital administrators have urged patients not to avoid getting care during the strike.<\/p>\n<p>The labor action comes three years after a\u00a0similar strike\u00a0forced medical facilities to transfer some patients and divert ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>As with the 2023 labor action, nurses have\u00a0pointed to staffing issues\u00a0as a major flashpoint, accusing the big-budget medical centers of refusing to commit to provisions for safe, manageable workloads.<\/p>\n<p>Union officials say roughly 15,000 nurses walked off the job Monday morning at multiple campuses of three hospital systems: NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia, Montefiore Medical Center, and Mount Sinai. IPA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The affected hospitals have hired droves of temporary nurses to try to fill the labor gap.  Edna Leshowitz\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>A protester holds a sign featuring Mount Sinai CEOs with their faces on baked potatoes and their salaries listed, during the 2026 New York City Nurses Strike. Victor M Matos\/TheNEWS2 via ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The private, nonprofit hospitals involved in the current negotiations say they\u2019ve made strides in staffing in recent years and have cast the union\u2019s demands as prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the city\u2019s new mayor, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/mayor-zohran-mamdani-raises-eyebrows-by-joining-15k-striking-nyc-nurses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani, stood beside nurses<\/a> on a picket line outside NewYork-Presbyterian, praising the union\u2019s members for seeking \u201cdignity, respect, and the fair pay and treatment that they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Thousands of New York City nurses returned to the picket lines Tuesday as\u00a0their strike\u00a0targeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26920,57,9,24,55,54,23187,56,3610,23289,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-98922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-labor-strikes","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-nurses","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-public-health","17":"tag-strikes","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98922","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=98922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}