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MAILONLINE LIVEBLOG: Get all the latest updates on the NHS ambulance strikes as 10,000 workere walk out across England today at MailOnlines live blog on January 11, 2022.

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More than 7,000 nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center are striking over working conditions, calling for more nurses at the bedside for patients.

The walkout of 7,000 nurses marks the first major strike of the new year in the United States and signals a new stage in the growing rebellion of health care workers.

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"We're tired now — overwhelmed," one ER nurse said from the picket lines as protest disrupts patient care.

Advanced air defense system. back heret a home, its day two of a new york city nurses strike and it is showing no signs of coming to an end anytime soon. cbss meg oliver reports the main sticking point remains safe staffing levels. ( shouting ) >> reporter: bundled up in the icy cold, nurses at new york citys hospital hospital -- mount sinai hospital are not backing down. we want more staff. no ones happy, no ones staying. people dont like to work here. >> reporter: thousands of nurses here and ...

The potential walkout would follow deals reached at several other hospitals in the city. The union says chronic understaffing leaves nurses caring for too many patients.

Union says chronic understaffing leaves nurses caring for too many patients, saying "bosses have pushed us to strike."

Several hospitals in New York City are starting to divert a majority of ambulances away from their facilities and canceling some elective surgeries ahead of a tentative nurses strike scheduled to begin on Monday.