A group of on-strike nurses rallying for better pay and safer working conditions were arrested in Manhattan Thursday, cops said.
An NYPD spokesman confirmed that 13 nurses were taken into custody for blocking the entrance to an office building where the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) is headquartered on W. 57th St. near 11th Ave in Hell’s Kitchen about 1:30 p.m.
Charges against the nurses were pending.
NYPD cops warned the nurses blocking the hospital’s entrance to disperse or face arrest. Officers then moved in on the nurses who did not give way, zip-tied their hands and led them to waiting police vans.
Those arrested were among a group of roughly 150 nurses who gathered to rally outside the building amid an ongoing strike that saw some 15,000 nurses from three of the city’s major hospital systems walk off the job on Jan. 12.
