Atlantic City casino workers on Wednesday authorized their leaders to call a strike against the gambling houses if new contracts are not reached by the beginning of July.

In front of City Hall on Tuesday, Araceli Salinas reminded the Mayor and Council about day laborers like her: “We are not invisible, we are essential!”

A group of freelance post-production coordinators in the city has voted for union representation with the Communications Workers for America, a first for the city’s film industry. The June 9 …

A Manhattan Supreme Court Justice issued a restraining order June 10 barring District Council 37’s Local 983 from conducting its election after five candidates running against the incumbent …

Following an eight-week jury trial, a 28-year-old man was convicted Monday of murder charges for his role in the February 2019 friendly-fire death of NYPD Detective Brian Simonsen.  

Anthony Innone was in college in the spring of 2007 when he heard that the city would be holding a recruiting exam for the Department of Sanitation. 

Starbucks workers at an Astoria location last week became the first in Queens to unionize, bringing the tally of unionized Starbucks stores nationwide to well over 100 and the number of unionization petitions to almost 300 as of last week, organizers said. 

Until just last week, Abdul Awan, an MTA revenue equipment maintainer who has been working underground for about 23 years, had to take a weekly Covid test to keep his job. 

The number of school safety agents injured on the job because of student misconduct has risen significantly over the past five years, according to NYPD data. Between July 2021 and the end of March, …

In a move that has left some labor unions lamenting missed job and housing opportunities, One45 developers withdrew their application last week for a controversial 915-unit housing development …

Shootings and killings continued to decline citywide, despite a particularly violent Memorial Day weekend and a continued increase in overall crime, police said. 

The Professional Staff Congress filed a lawsuit May 31 in Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that the city public-university system’s Covid vaccine mandate does not apply to thousands of employees. …

After spending years in legislative limbo, a bill that would significantly increase fines issued to construction companies found criminally liable for worker injuries or fatalities was passed by the Legislature last week.

With the nation yet to come to terms with massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde, clusters of gun violence in the city threatening epidemic proportions, and Congress held hostage by the gun lobby, Mayor …

The head of the largest union representing city workers called on the city to negotiate a telework policy after the Adams administration doubled down on the importance of municipal employees working in person.

With negotiations on a post-pandemic city budget coming to a close, nearly 1,000 human services workers flooded City Hall last week with one laser-focused message for Mayor Eric Adams: just pay. For …

After a year of deliberations and pandemic-related setbacks, the city’s Street Vendor Advisory Board released a report last week outlining the state of street vending that includes a flurry of …

“Chipotle is raising the cost of its burritos but won’t raise the wages of its employees? That just doesn’t make sense to me,” Ed Dealecio, an employee of the fast-casual restaurant chain …

Workers in the MTA’s Career and Salary Division have been without a contract for three years, and one employee publicly berated the authority for unnecessarily delaying concluding negotiations on a …

Workers at one of the nation’s most popular TV cooking shows are looking for more recognition. In recent weeks, about 150 cooks, writers, editors, videographers, web developers, shoppers, …

Following the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and concerns about the growing number of weapons in city public schools, Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David …

Nearly 7,000 city employees who sought exemptions from vaccine mandates on religious or medical grounds, most of them police officers, are either awaiting decisions on their appeals or haven’t yet …

Menuka Simkhada, a Nepali nail technician who has worked on the job for six years, is struggling to raise two children on an hourly salary that is below the city’s minimum wage.Although lawmakers a …

In the 1960s, Joe Coulombe had a novel idea.     To distinguish his new Pasadena, California, grocery store from others, he would pay his workers a higher wage and provide them with …

The World Trade Center Health Program is considering adding uterine cancer as a 9/11-related health condition, more than two years after the program rejected the illness as a covered condition.