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Marina Dunbar and agencies

New York City expects biggest nurses strike as nearly 15,000 set to walk off job

a group of people stand outside holding signs such as 'fair contract for patients & nurses' and 'on strike for better patient care'
NYSNA nurses walk off the job, to go on strike at Mount Sinai hospital in New York City on 9 January 2023. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Thousands of nurses are set to walk off the job at several of New York City’s largest hospitals on Monday, staging a strike amid an intense flu season.

The action comes three years after a previous strike that compelled some of the same hospitals to move patients elsewhere and reroute ambulances.

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