APRIL 30, 2025

Transit crews who worked at ground zero still awaiting disability benefit

Philip Ronnie Shpiller retired from his 30-year career with the city as an emergency-response plumber with the New York City Transit Authority in 2012. But in a very real sense, the work never left him.

Shpiller and dozens of his colleagues... MORE

UFT leadership prevails in voting dispute

A New York State Supreme Court judge has permitted a plan that would offer in-person voting options in the United Federation of Teachers’ upcoming election, the union announced last week.

Although it is expected that the majority of votes will be... MORE

Educators frustrated over delayed travel, coursework reimbursements

Therapists, nurses and other educators in the city’s public school system are sick of having to wait months and even years to be reimbursed for travel and coursework expenses.

Members of the United Federation of Teachers rallied near the... MORE

With ranked endorsements, DC 37 rejects Cuomo, hears out activist members

Within a day of the union announcing its endorsement of Council Speaker Adrienne Adams for Mayor, District Council 37 had printed out dozens of pro-Adams signs and marshalled Attorney General Letitia James and two other unions - UNITE HERE Local... MORE

Gillibrand, unions sound alarm on Social Security cuts

Federal Social Security employees are retiring early, accepting voluntary resignation offers, being arbitrarily reassigned to different apartments, facing harsher consequences for infractions and are being forced to work in person every day... MORE

Amid threats to worker safety, advocates commemorate Workers Memorial Day

Elie William, a 45-year electrical assistant working on a construction site at the Waldorf Astoria, was the first worker to die in New York City this year.

The construction worker, who fell 40 feet through a hole from a suspended catwalk, died... MORE

OPINION

Private streets and winds farms

I remember rotary phones and telephone booths, so I'm part of the dinosaur subset of the population that actuaries predict will soon return to the primordial soup and revert to pre-birth non-existence.

Like when I was a kid, I deal only in... MORE

For Adams, independence is no guarantee

It’s no secret that in New York City the most important qualification for getting elected mayor is being a Democrat. It does not even require a candidate to be a good Democrat. Since the five boroughs merged in 1898, some of the worst mayors have... MORE

LETTERS

Dereliction

To the editor:

Retirees are accustomed to breaches of faith by labor and political leaders who otherwise have a moral obligation to protect our hard earned health benefits.

The latest betrayal? Last year, State Senator Pete Harckham... MORE

Time for a reboot

To the editor:

State legislation that would have preserved the current health benefits of all state and city retirees, Health Equity for Retirees (S3607/A4639), is dead on arrival. State Senator Pete Harckham, the bill's sponsor in that chamber,... MORE

Work Rules, by Barbara Smaller

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