After a two-day pause during the snowstorm, nurses at Mount Sinai West returned to the picket line this week to continue calls for improved workplace safety, staffing and benefits. Striking nurses returned to the picket lines after a two-day pause for the snowstorm. Photo: Brennan LaBrie. Bundled up against below-freezing temperatures that peaked at 25 degrees, over 50 nurses paced between snowdrifts in front of the 10th Avenue hospital, carrying signs reading “Mount Sinai Unfair!” and “More Nurses, Less Billionaire Execs.”