01/24/2026
🎙️New on the Labor Notes Pod:
“We desperately want to be at the bedside taking care of our patients, that’s why we chose this profession. Our patients become our families, our co-workers become our families—this is more than just a job to us.” —Sophie Boland, a bargaining committee member and pediatric ICU nurse at the New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in Manhattan.
Listen to the full episode: https://labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/15000-nurses-are-on-the-largest-nurses-strike-in-new-york-city-in-decades/
Some 15,000 nurses, members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), are headed toward week three of an open-ended strike against three hospital systems—the Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and New York Presbyterian hospitals.
Nurses are holding the line to defend their hard-fought wins on safe staffing ratios, to demand safety on the job, and to keep mgmt from imposing A.I. in a way that overrides or replaces the judgment of human medical professionals.
Labor Notes organizers and pod co-hosts Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann joined picket lines this month and share what they've been hearing from striking nurses.
Listen on the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Podbean: https://labornotespodcast.podbean.com/
