The NYC nurses strike turned into a day of unrest when over a dozen caretakers were arrested for refusing to leave a private area in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday. Photo by Dean Moses Simmering tensions built up during the four-week-long NYC nurses strike began to boil on Thursday when more than a dozen caretakers were arrested for refusing to leave the Midtown headquarters of a major hospital trade association.
"It's clear when people don't have experience in a city like New York. For example, the social worker says, "there are certain things that nurses in the intensive-care unit know that should be very normal for ICU nurses to know how to do. But I'll go in to check on a patient, and there are five travel nurses at their bedside just trying to crack the code of how to do this thing."
