"Martin Luther King Day died in Memphis fighting for wages for garbage workers, and I believe he would want those of us that come in his tradition to be standing with nurses and standing with those that should be getting wages for saving the lives and caring for people that the private hospitals and other hospitals seem not to care about, Sharpton railed."
"This is not only a labor issue, this is a civil rights issue. This is a human rights issue, Sharpton said. It's an issue that Black and white, Latino, Asian, all stand together because those that want to make profits out of people's illness, rather than pay for those that care for them, that stand for them, that are there when their families are not there in some cases. So, we had to come on King's Day."
Rev. Al Sharpton joined hundreds of striking nurses at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital on Jan. 19, standing on the picket line as the strike reached its eighth day. The nurses braved frigid cold, danced and maintained demands for better pay and improved patient care. Sharpton invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, noting King died in Memphis fighting for wages and arguing that King would support nurses seeking fair compensation. Sharpton framed the nurses' fight as a civil and human rights issue that crosses racial lines and criticized profit-driven hospitals that underpay caregivers. New York Nurses Association President Nancy Hagans reaffirmed the commitment of about 15,000 nurses to demands for higher wages and safe staffing.
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