The temperature was plummeting outside of Montefiore Hospital in Norwood last night, but the striking Bronx nurses, walking over piles of snow to make their picket line unbroken, stirred to action: Replacement nurses were arriving.
"Let's show the scabs what we think of them," shouted one red-winter-capped nurse to another.
"Boo! Shame!" the nurses cried out at the replacement nurses, who were being bused to and from their hotels by hospital management.
"There's way less of them today! They're heading to California and Hawaii, they're sick of the cold," observed one nurse.
More than 31,000 nurses went on strike in California and Hawaii on Monday, with many of the same grievances as New York City's—short staffing, dangerous conditions, wages that don't keep up with the cost of living.
