Nurses with the New York State Nurses Association picketed outside New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Columbia campus on Monday, calling for safer staffing levels, improved working conditions and a fair contract.
The action marked what union leaders described as the largest nurses' strike in New York City history, with nearly 15,000 nurses walking off the job across multiple hospitals.
Nurses said chronic understaffing has left them stretched thin, limiting the time they can spend with patients and raising safety concerns.
Union officials said the strike followed months of bargaining in which hospital management failed to make progress on what nurses described as core issues, including staffing levels, healthcare benefits and workplace safety. Nurses carried signs reading "Patients Over Profits" and "Safe Nurses = Safe Patients," while supporters waved from a skybridge as ambulances passed. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined the nurses and urged a return to negotiations.

REUTERS

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