Nurses who work in NYC’s public hospitals and agencies are exhausted and demanding change. We are uniting with labor, community, and political allies and are ready to do whatever it takes to win a fair contract that improves patient care, strengthens the nursing workforce, and uplifts our communities.

9,000 public sector nurses, who staff New York City’s public hospitals and mayorals agencies, are demanding that the city live up to its agreement on pay parity with the private sector to stop the bleed of nurses from public hospitals that has created a crisis of understaffing that harms NYC’s most vulnerable patients.

NYC’s 11 public hospitals make up almost 20 percent of our citywide hospital beds, operate the largest hospital-based clinic system in the city, and provide almost half of all Level I emergency trauma care and acute in-patient mental health services in our city. City healthcare workers also keep first responders like police and firefighters healthy and provide direct care to New Yorkers who receive assistance from agencies like Child Services, the Department of Social Services and other programs providing homeless services and mental health crisis services.

Nurses are essential to our city’s public health system!