FDNY union leadership are uneasy about Mayor Adams’ recently announced directive compelling city agencies to cut their budgets by 8 percent within two years. Oren Barzilay, the president of …
“It definitely is a frustrating aspect of our jobs — that Starbucks is marketing themselves as being an ethical company while we’re being pretty ruthlessly exploited,” said Jacob Welsh, a …
Farmworkers in New York State will have their overtime thresholds incrementally reduced from 60 hours to 40 hours over a decade should Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon sign off on recommendations …
Food service workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 100 rallied outside of the Federal Reserve building in lower Manhattan last week in support of cafeteria workers inside who have been working on …
The Adams administration has enlisted the City Council in its so-far frustrated bid to switch retirees to a cost-saving Medicare Advantage plan.
Hundreds of tech workers alongside pro-Palestinian activists assembled outside Google’s Chelsea offices Sept. 8, chanting “No justice, no peace, tech workers are in the streets!” and holding up …
“This was not just a job, this was my lifelong career,” said Bernadette Mejia, a former firefighter who left her job at the FDNY after she chose not to get vaccinated against coronavirus.Dozens …
Mayor Eric Adams has ordered city agencies to slash their budgets by nearly 8 percent over the next two years — three days after the City Council held a hearing about the city’s difficulties …
New York City hosted the country's first major Labor Day parade 140 years ago, and the tradition continued over the weekend, with U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh serving as grand marshal. …
Harry Nespoli, the president of Teamsters Local 831, the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association, and his slate will embark on a fifth five-year term. Nespoli and his colleagues faced no opposition …
A bill making its way through the City Council has split the ranks of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, with union officials criticizing the legislation and rank-and-file …
Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with tear-choked tributes and pleas to "never forget," 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. The loss still felt immediate to Bonita Mentis, who …
Mayor Eric Adams and the city schools chancellor announced plans to train 650 school safety agents throughout the coming school year — and a possible pathway for safety agents and other civilian …
After nine years of college studies, Tom Reingold found the rigors of coursework too difficult and dropped out of Hunter College in 1987 without receiving a degree. He went on to work in …
Even 21 years after the Twin Towers collapsed, 9/11 remains a raw memory for Joe Calderone. Calderone, at the time an investigative editor at the Daily News, got to ground zero a day after the …
Workers at a John Catsimatidis-owned oil company who were fired after they went on strike last year must be offered their jobs back, according to a settlement between the firm and the National Labor …
Martin Vazquez, 39, held out his hand out for his wife Sofia, 37, as she stepped out of a pedicab on Central Park South on Labor Day. The married couple of eight years consciously chose for their …
We’re number one. Amid a recent wave of organizing campaigns across the country, New York City had the highest rate of newly-unionized private-sector workers, according to a recent report.Between …
A former NYPD cop was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison for striking a Washington, D.C., police officer with a flagpole during the violent Jan. 6 takeover of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of …
Much has changed since Frank Ciccone joined the ranks of what was then the New York City Housing Authority Police Department. Call them the bad old days. Despite recent headlines suggesting …
A number of NYPD officers are suing the city, claiming that officials’ responses to their requests for religious exemptions from the vaccine mandate were a sham. The suits, filed in Manhattan …
New York City taxi drivers who owe hundreds of thousands of dollars on loans they took out to operate yellow cabs will see their burdens reduced substantially under a debt relief program announced …
The city is moving to terminate more than 1,000 educators and dozens of firefighters who have failed to comply with coronavirus vaccine requirements.About 1,300 unvaccinated public-school employees …
The City University of New York has seen a 40 percent reduction in campus peace officers and campus security assistants, leaving campuses vulnerable. Prior to the pandemic, CUNY staffed about …
Staten Island Ferry engineers should be getting paid the same as mariners working similar jobs on open-sea cargo vessels, according to findings by an administrative law judge, a decision that could …
