Shella Dominguez is a nurse at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital and a local rank-and-file union leader.

03.05.2026

• Shella Dominguez

The New York City Nurses’ Strike Was a Historic Victory

The largest and longest nurse strike in New York City history concluded last month. A rank-and-file nurse leader writes in Jacobin about how the 15,000 striking nurses beat giant hospitals to win major victories on safe-staffing and other issues.

01.13.2026

• Simone Way
• Shella Dominguez
• Marvin Duncan
• Yashira Martinez

New York City Nurses Have Launched Their Biggest-Ever Strike

Nearly 15,000 nurses are now on strike at three New York City private sector hospitals, in the largest nurses’ strike the city has ever seen. Nurses say they are striking to end understaffing that burns out nurses and endangers patients.