Nurses walked off the job at the Mount Sinai and Montefiore medical centers in Harlem and the Bronx over staffing issues
Talks failed on Sunday night. At 6am on Monday, nurses went on strike at Mount Sinai medical center on the Upper East Side and Montefiore medical center in the Bronx.
On the Upper East Side, thousands of nurses walked the picket line, wearing red and waving signs bearing their demand for safer staff ratios. Holding a sign, Garcia said ICU staff often cared for three to four patients at once, compared with the one to two to whom they should be assigned.
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