City Council legislation that would preserve municipal retirees’ health benefits has so far found little traction, but advocates have vowed to persist in their effort to defeat the Adams administration’s plan to switch the former city workers into...
A former city correction officer who conspired to smuggle narcotics, food and other contraband into a Rikers Island jail in exchange for cash payments from inmates has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges. Ghislaine Barrientos, of Mount...
Almost a year after taking a near-unanimous vote to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, workers at the off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company are ratcheting up pressure on management and threatening to strike if...
The NYPD graduated 625 new officers Tuesday in a Tuesday ceremony at Madison Square Garden following their six-month stint at the Police Academy. A quarter of the class is female. Of the newly minted cops, 145 come from 35 different countries...
Doctors at four hospitals within the city’s public hospital system have agreed to temporarily postpone an unfair labor practice strike that was set to start Jan. 13. Last month, physicians at Jacobi Medical...
The fatal stabbing of three persons in broad daylight. The immolation of a woman in a subway car. The execution-style shooting death of a CEO outside a Midtown hotel. Those high profile murders and other violent crimes had residents on edge in...
President Joe Biden signed legislation Sunday that will ensure around 2.5 million public sector workers reap the entirety of their Social Security benefits. The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision, and the...
A building services company has agreed to cancel existing no-poach agreements and to refrain from entering any new ones after a joint investigation by the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey. The probe by New York Attorney General...
When Firefighter Brendan Gaffney arrived with the rest of Ladder Company 36 to the lobby of an Inwood building that had caught fire from an exploding lithium-ion battery, he was informed by residents in the building’s lobby that there were people...
With the congestion pricing program south of 60th street in Manhattan kicking off Sunday, the head of a union representing FDNY EMS employees is advising his members who work at three stations within the tolling areas to request transfers out of...
Citing the possible appearance of a conflict, the state attorney general’s office has recused itself from the investigation into the death of Robert Brooks, the prisoner who died after enduring a severe beating by state correctional officers last...
Patrick Ferraiuolo has done his time. After nearly 43 years with the city’s Department of Correction, the last 15 as president of the Correction Captains Association, Ferraiuolo is leaving his post. The union leader, whose last full term was...
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here After his second debilitating injury at work, Derrick Baker decided it was time to retire. Baker...
In mid-December, New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced a long-sought triumph for 9/11 first responders: they had secured funding for the World Trade Center Health Program through 2040 in a proposed bipartisan budget deal. The...
Despite safe staffing laws enacted by the state in recent years, a recent study from the New York State Nurses Association found that just a third of surveyed hospitals complied with the state’s mandate to publicly post staffing plans in all...
Anthony Lackhan of the Members In Charge slate narrowly won the race for president at District Council 37’s Local 1549 in the union’s recent runoff. After none of the four candidates for president earned the majority of votes required to win...
Before he began his 18-week stint at the FDNY’s probationary firefighter academy, Dylan DiLevo, he says, jokingly told his wife that he had a planned to be the valedictorian of his academy class. But halfway through the course, DiLevo found out...
In what could prove to be damning evidence, body camera footage released by the state attorney general’s office Friday shows several state correction officers engaging in a brutal and, according to some officials, ultimately fatal beating of a...
The New York State Court System graduated 158 court officers Dec. 18 at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. The newly minted officers completed four months of paid basic training at the Court Officers Academy, demonstrating their physical...
Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law three union-supported pieces of legislation last week that advocates say will protect warehouse workers from injury, aid workers at car dealerships and regulate state agencies’ use of artificial...
Video footage of an incident implicating state correction officers in the death of an inmate earlier this month is of such a brutal nature that it could spark violence inside jails and prisons statewide, the officers' union said.
Thousands of models, content creators, stylists and others working in New York State’s fashion industry will get paid on time, copied on contracts and agreements and notified of royalties they are owed, according to legislation signed into law by...
A third former superintendent at the city Housing Authority has been convicted of bribery and extortion charges for accepting money in exchange for approving contracts in connection with the large takedown by the U.S. Department of Justice. Corey...
A bill that would have provided full pension benefits to the families of transit workers who work past retirement eligibility but die before retiring was vetoed last week by Governor Kathy Hochul, prompting frustration from two union leaders who...
A building services company will pay over $145,000 to former cleaners and door attendants for breaching prevailing wage and benefits requirements at two different properties under a settlement announced by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander on...
