SEPTEMBER 5, 2025

Pay Dirt: Worker Protection Unit at Manhattan DA's digs up stolen wages

Since its inception in February 2023, the Worker Protection Unit at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has recovered and disbursed $1.3 million in wages from about 50 workers whose bosses knowingly underpaid them. For the lawyers and investigators, their work, unfortunately, goes on ... MORE

Local 100 official says ouster for intervening in love triangle was retaliation

A Local 100 official who was ousted from his position in union leadership after intervening in a love triangle between three bus operators says his removal was the result of retaliation from the union's top leaders. J.P Patafio the former vice... MORE

NYCERS to reconsider recent change to disability benefit policy

Top officials at New York City’s largest public pension fund told an advocate for 9/11 first responders that the fund’s board of trustees will reconsider a policy change made in January that eliminated retirees’ ability to appeal... MORE

$1B health deal for municipal workers draws doubts

About three-quarters of the city’s municipal workforce, pre-Medicare retirees and their dependents will have expanded access to doctors and other clinicians, according to a tentative, cost-saving agreement city and union officials reached with two... MORE

In New York City, immigrants more likely to be unionized, report finds

Foreign born workers in New York City are more likely to be union members than workers born in the United States, according to a report published in August by CUNY scholars Ruth Milkman and Joseph van der Naald. The report, The State of The Unions... MORE

Sliwa likes his chances in a crowded mayor's race

Curtis Sliwa, the colorful creator of New York City's Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol group, ran for mayor four years ago and wound up losing to Democrat Eric Adams by almost 40 percentage points. This time around, the red beret-wearing Republican believes ... MORE

COMMENTARY

WAKE-UP CALL

Creeping coercion

At the relished risk of being called a fascist bully (bring it on!), I say it's not merely all right, but is an act of love and consummate civic duty, to "coerce" people whose drug intoxication, or overt and uncontrolled mental turmoil, so... MORE

Beneath the city

A subculture lives below New York City resembling a sanctuary society of sorts that many people call home, yet the inhabitants meagerly exist day after day. New Yorkers regularly witness the danger, discomfort and distress of the... MORE

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Rush to judgment

To the editor: The city has announced a new health plan for active city employees, pre-Medicare retirees and their dependents. A joint proposal from EmblemHealth and United Healthcare was selected, subject to ratification by the Municipal Labor... MORE

Unions and Gaza

To the editor: Thank you, Ben August, for your moral clarity (“Publisher’s note: On Gaza,” The Chief, Aug. 28). In this dark moment, working New Yorkers — alongside the journalists who keep us informed — must dust off our moral compass and chart... MORE

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