it is a vicious cycle. i want to introduce you to rachel she s a oncology nurse and you worked through the pandemic. why are you hear today. we re out here fighting for our patient s safety and their lives. we have close to 4,000 nurses out here today specifically for that alone. it is not about wages, it is never about been wages. it is truly about safety of our patients. and you know, to be completely honest, we have no medical benefits right now. we re not getting paid. that is how important this is to us. and we really care about our patients and we want the community to know that this fight is for them really. thank you so much. mt. sinai said that they offered the nurses association the same exact deal that other hospitals and the union agreed to but that it was rejected. now because of this strike the hospital has made other plans rerouting ambulances and patients to other hospitals. moving nicu babies to other locations and canceling any elected surgeries but the nurses