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COVID-19 Frontline Workers Blast Trump and Cuomo on National Media for Lack of PPE

Yesterday’s action outside Mount Sinai Hospital – led by rank-and-file frontline workers – brought worldwide media attention to the struggle and demands of nurses and other frontline and essential workers.

Left Voice

April 4, 2020
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Photo by Luigi Morris

Yesterday morning, a group of rank-and-file nurses, physicians, and other frontline workers came together outside Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City to forcefully decry the lack of access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and the failure of the state, their unions, and hospital administrators to adequately respond to their demands. 

Despite the near silence from government officials and hospital executives, the worldwide media covered these workers courageously fight and speak out on behalf of their colleagues and other sectors of the working class who are exposed to COVID-19 at their workplaces. 

These media outlets brought attention to the workers who recently formed the COVID-19 Frontline Workers Task Force at Mount Sinai Hospital which includes Left Voice member and nurse Tre Kwon. Without the support of their union leadership and with the risk of losing their jobs, the world watched workers clutch portraits of frontline workers who have already died from this crisis because of the bosses’ solution of inaction. The Task Force was formed to use self-organization to confront and reject a “business-as-usual” response.

Watch our coverage and the coverage of other media outlets below. 

https://www.facebook.com/LeftVoice.org/videos/3047156305335373

NY Daily News

NYC nurses, clutching photos of dead colleagues, demand better protective gear on pandemic’s front line

Democracy Now!

“Our Bodies Are On the Line”: NYC Nurses Demand Protective Gear as COVID-19 Death Toll Skyrockets

BBC

‘I just had a baby – now I’m going to the frontline’

CBS New York

Coronavirus Update: Nurses Rally Outside Mount Sinai Hospital On Upper East Side

NBC National News

Mt. Sinai medical workers protest equipment shortage

MSNBC

“If we don’t get what we need, we’ll die. And that is something that will be on their conscience, not mine.”

NY Post

Mount Sinai nurses pushing for extra supplies on coronavirus front line

Al Jazeera

US doctors, nurses on coronavirus front line beg for critical PPE

WABC

Coronavirus News: Mount Sinai workers in NYC demanding PPE, standardized procedures

SIC Mulher

Enfermeira termina licença de maternidade mais cedo: “Acabei de ter um bebé. Agora vou para a linha da frente”

Press Stories

Mount Sinai nurses plead for supplies on coronavirus front line

Channel News Asia

New York faces COVID-19 onslaught as state’s dead nears 9/11 toll

La Izquierda Diario

Tre Kwon, enfermera de Nueva York: “La única solución racional es nacionalizar la industria”

KPFA

“Our Bodies Are On the Line”: NYC Nurses Demand Protective Gear as COVID-19 Death Toll Skyrockets

Fox News

Nurses at top New York City hospital say they deserve ‘hazard pay’ in battle against COVID-19

One News Page
Coronavirus Update: Nurses Rally Outside Mount Sinai Hospital On Upper East Side

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