Seven thousand nurses are on strike in New York City, fighting for safe staffing ratios and higher wages. Learn more and get involved at wsws.org/nurses.










Seven thousand nurses are on strike in New York City, fighting for safe staffing ratios and higher wages. Learn more and get involved at wsws.org/nurses.
Despite widespread workers’ anger, the trade union bureaucracies oppose the independent mobilisation of the working class against the government’s attack on living and social conditions under the IMF program.
The Mount Sinai Health System has long sought to close the hospital, which would deprive neighborhood residents of easy access to emergency care.
On Tuesday, nearly 2,200 nurses protested the inhumane conditions that have become the norm in hospitals across the United States.
Workers are ready to fight against real pay cuts, chronic staffing shortages and unsafe conditions, but their efforts are being thwarted by the Health Workers Union bureaucracy.