UPI
More than 7,000 nurses at hospitals in New York City began a strike over contracts Monday as some picketed outside the hospitals where they work.
Nurses with the New York State Nurses Association, a union that represents more than 42,000 nurses in the state, demonstrated outside four hospitals, including Mount Sinai Hospital at Madison and East 99th Street in Manhattan, as well as three Montefiore campuses in the Bronx.
The nursing union has received backing in the strike from city and state officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and Council Member Gale Brewer, according to a news release.
