New York Nurses Announce Strike

Ten thousand nurses at four hospitals in NYC will strike on April 2 unless management improves their offer. Their main demand is safe staffing ratios.

Nurses Have the Power to Strike and Win

After voting overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, upwards of 10,000 NYSNA members are waiting to hear from union leadership whether the walk-out is actually going to happen at four hospitals run by the three largest hospital systems in New York City.  

NYC Nurses’ Strike Looms Large

Denouncing backbreaking conditions that put patients at risk, 97% of nurses in four New York City hospitals vote to authorize a strike.

Why Are Home Health Aides Working 24-Hour Shifts and Only Receiving Pay for 13 Hours?

Home health aides in New York are currently allowed, by law, to get paid for only half of a daylong shift.

NYC Nurses Picket Mega-Hospitals for Safe Staffing

Nurses across the city gear up for a major strike authorization vote.

New York Nurses Resolve to Fight for Public Employees’ Right to Strike

On Saturday, nurses voted overwhelmingly in favor of repealing Section 210 of the Taylor Law and fighting for public workers’ right to strike.

Socialist Nurse on Strike: An Interview

Last week, almost 2,000 nurses went on a two-day strike in Burlington, Vermont. Left Voice interviews nurse and International Socialist Organization member Tristin Adie about the strike.

At Breaking Point, Nurses Fight for Union at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Left Voice interviews a nurse organizing at the front lines of health care in Baltimore.

Sexist Shaming Makes A ‘Good Nurse’

A nurse talks about vile encounters with managers and sexist norms on the job.