Black and female workers are leaving the city workforce at disproportionate rates – and members of the City Council want to know why. Although 32 percent of the city workers are Black, they represented 39 percent of the workers who separated from...
Members of public sector unions in New York City can decertify their union or change the union representing them after three years without a contract following a settlement reached between the city and state labor boards this month. In...
A former Rikers correction officer has been sentenced to six months in prison for her role in a narcotics-smuggling scheme at the penal island. Ghislaine Barrientos, of Mount Vernon, had pleaded guilty in January federal bribery charges for...
NJ Transit locomotive engineers have rejected a tentative contract deal in a dispute over wages, setting the stage for a possible strike next month. Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen voted overwhelmingly against the...
After nearly two months on strike, workers at two Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations reached an agreement with management that cancels the layoffs of 70 employees and allows striking workers to return to work. Members of United Auto Workers...
After nearly two years of hard bargaining, the union representing NYPD sergeants and the city have chiseled a tentative contract agreement. The retroactive 5-year deal, which will be put to a vote of the Sergeants Benevolent Association's rank...
Show them the money. Members of the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY are frustrated that, three months after ratifying their contract, they still haven’t received their ratification bonuses, retroactive pay or raises. PSC members voted to...
The more than 2,000 state correction officers fired by Governor Kathy Hochul for taking part in an illegal wildcat strike earlier this year would be given an opportunity to get their jobs back, according to legislation introduced by two Upstate...
Hundreds of workers who deliver beer to bars, restaurants and other food and drink establishments could go on strike this week, their union announced Monday. About 600 delivery workers at Manhattan Beer & Beverage Distributors who distribute...
The city public school system will hire more than 3,700 new teachers in order to reduce class sizes, Mayor Eric Adams and union leaders representing educators announced last week. Since 2022, the city public school system has been under a mandate...
The NYPD sergeant’s union is pushing back on efforts by city officials to institute a pilot program that would have its members work 12-shifts as a condition to settle outstanding contract issues. The president of the Sergeants Benevolent...
Two unions representing more than 4,700 FDNY EMTs, paramedics, EMS officers and fire protection inspectors endorsed former Governor Andew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City on Wednesday. In the 2021 mayoral election, the two District Council 37...
"By 2030 we will guarantee that every New Yorker ages 18 to 26 is either employed or enrolled in school, because no young person in New York City should be left out." That was the promise made by State Senator Jessica Ramos on Wednesday...
Nearly 1,600 workers who labored on city-funded developments have yet to claim funds owed to them that the New York City Comptroller has secured in prevailing wage settlements with private companies. The uncollected funds total $4.27 million and...
Although the city spends hundreds of millions on workforce development, just 16 percent of that funding is geared towards adults between the ages of 25 and 54 who don’t receive public assistance, with nearly half of the funding going towards teens...
$1 Billion in funding would be provided to the FDNY for “critical infrastructure and equipment needs” in the fiscal year 2026 budget under a proposal released by the City Council last week. The Council’s proposed budget, an opening salvo in...
A pay and discrimination lawsuit by 13 current and former Department of Sanitation workers against the city will go ahead following a federal judge’s finding that the plaintiffs have standing under the city’s human rights law and federal...
Leadership at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in lower Manhattan recognized the union formed by around 60 employees last week, averting the need for a formal union election. A non-profit that has supported LGBTQ...
A Department of Design and Construction worker and the union that represents him alleged that he and other colleagues were being retaliated against for testifying against a superior who made them bring personal packages to the agency’s mailroom,...
Home health care nurses at CenterLight Healthcare submitted a strike notice Thursday to the long-term care provider, their union announced. The nurses’ previous pact expired last September. The New York State Nurses Association has been in...
The Trump administration fired the administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program and gutted the agency that oversees the program this week as part of its larger personnel and funding cuts across the federal government. Upon learning of...
Unions, labor advocate groups and community organizations sent a letter Friday to Governor Kathy Hochul calling on the state to increase funding at the Department of Labor in anticipation of federal cuts that could threaten workforce development...
The MTA will hire 300 additional unionized employees to renovate, upgrade and repair stations in the aging subway system, leadership of the MTA and the Transport Workers Union announced this week. The proposed increase in staff would be...
A special prosecutor said Monday he made offers to resolve criminal cases against 10 New York prison guards indicted in the beating death of a handcuffed man. Six correctional officers were charged with murder last month in the December death of...
Unions representing more than 5,000 workers at Columbia are demanding that the university stand up to the Trump administration’s attempts to control the university, protect students and reinstate workers that have been expelled and terminated....
