‘We went from heroes to zeroes’: US nurses strike over work conditions

Nurses across the US are picketing over severe understaffing issues and inadequate equipment amid the pandemic

Last April people across America came out of quarantine each night to cheer the healthcare workers fighting to save lives a the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Sixteen months on, nurses around the US are holding strikes and picket actions amid claims of deteriorating working conditions and severe understaffing issues.

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