Friends,
This week, ten thousand registered nurses in New York City announced their intention to strike over severe staffing shortages that are putting their patients — our families — at risk.
The working conditions that these nurses face are unsustainable and dangerous. Patients are being left unattended for longer periods of time, and nurses are unable to take breaks or call out sick without causing serious understaffing in the Emergency Room. One complaint noted that only three on-duty nurses were tasked with caring for 44 newborns in the ICU.1
The nurse staffing shortage is a life and death issue, and striking comes with huge personal risk and great hardship. Nurses are taking this action to improve care for all of us, and we need to stand with all of them right now. That’s why I hope you’ll join me in standing in solidarity with the RNs and with working families across New York today.
I’m proud to announce the creation of the Working Families Strike Hardship Fund to support striking workers, including the nurses who are so courageously standing up right now. All donations made to the fund will go directly to supporting workers in need when they make the courageous decision to strike.
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These brave nurses are just the latest in a growing movement of workers who are fighting back against corporate power, fighting for fair wages, and fighting for all of us.
We saw it in the teacher strikes in West Virginia, in Los Angeles, and in Denver. We saw it when Air Traffic Controllers helped end the Trump shutdown.1
And now we’ll soon see it again in New York City if the NYC Hospital Alliance does not give into the nurses’ demands for fair staffing ratios.
All of us at the Working Families Party are proud to stand in solidarity with workers — from nurses to teachers — who take to the picket lines and demand better conditions for all of us. I hope you will join us.
Thanks,
Bill Lipton
State Director
New York Working Families Party
Sources:
This is a message from New York Working Families Party.
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