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.
NY Daily News
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
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
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