Following a state Supreme Court judge’s ruling that the state Department of Labor should not have closed hundreds of home health workers’ wage theft cases, elected officials are demanding that the investigations be reopened. State law allows...
Sparkle Lee, a professional boxing referee and former NYPD police officer, is too modest to think of herself as a trailblazer, but her many accomplishments speak for themselves. Lee began her officiating career in the amateurs in the 1980s,...
Legislation named for a late NYPD detective that is intended to crack down on cellphone thefts is now on the state’s books. The law, which requires wireless service providers to disable services to stolen phones, is named for Detective...
A federal judge has found New York City in contempt over conditions in Rikers Island’s jails, saying that violence inside has only gotten worse since a 2015 consent decree and the subsequent appointment of a federal monitor. The written...
A second former superintendent at the city Housing Authority was convicted of bribery and extortion for taking money in exchange for approving contracts as part of the 70-person takedown conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice. Hector Colon,...
Workers at the Strand bookstore are threatening to strike just before the shop's holiday season spike. Members of United Auto Workers Local 2179 held a strike authorization vote last week and 92 percent of the members who voted decided to...
In August, a month after New York City’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year was finalized, parks workers and advocates warned that cuts to the Parks Department budget would leave the city’s beloved natural areas and parks unmanaged, unpruned and...
Hundreds of workers who deep cleaned and disinfected subway cars during the early months of the pandemic are entitled to prevailing wages, with two contractors who hired them potentially responsible for more $2 million in back pay and penalties,...
The heads of the NYPD’s police unions welcomed the appointment of Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, with several noting her familiarity with the department and her willingness to sit down with labor. Tisch, the Department of...
Celestina Leon, the district manager at Brooklyn’s Community Board 4 and recent winner of the Sloan Public Service Award, sought to become a writer but was having a hard time finding a job in publishing after graduating from college. “I wasn’t...
A former NYPD officer was convicted today of sexually assaulting two boys, aged 15 and 12, and of related offenses involving two others, following a five-day jury trial in Brooklyn federal court. Christopher Terranova, 34, of Staten...
The union representing workers at the Daily News has filed another unfair labor practice charge against the hedge fund that owns the 105-year-old newspaper, accusing Alden Global Capital of bad faith bargaining and unilaterally changing working...
The city’s public school system is short more than 2,200 paraprofessionals, special education teachers and other staff who work with students with disabilities, the United Federation of Teachers found in a recent survey. The union, which in...
From New York City's Strongest to its Finest. In a widely anticipated move, Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner. Tisch, the Department of Sanitation’s commissioner since April 2022, becomes the fourth person to head the...
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan last Friday sided with the state of...
A bill which closes a loophole that reduces the Social Security benefits public sector retirees with pension plans can reap after retirement passed the U.S House of Representatives this week in a bipartisan vote. H.R. 82, The Social Security...
Despite reduced tolls tied to the MTA’s congestion pricing plan approved Monday, staunch opposition to the toll endures in some quarters. At least nine lawsuits challenging aspects of the plan remain active, and opponents will be hopeful to delay...
Congestion pricing is back on the map. And while the toll plan’s foremost purpose is to reduce traffic bottlenecks in Manhattan’s central business district, the money raised from the tolls is dedicated to funding MTA capital work, much of which...
Following a two-week period in which the FDNY responded to 271 brush fires in the city’s parks and nature areas, the department has formed a brush fire task force of fire marshals, fire inspectors, and tactical drone units in order to improve...
About 4,000 officers within two units of the State Police represented by the Police Benevolent Association of the New York State Troopers have ratified three-year collective bargaining agreements providing annual 3-percent salary bumps, lump-sum...
Hoping to overcome a final sticking point in contract talks that could have far-reaching implications for booksellers in New York City, Barnes & Noble Union employees and others rallied for improved wages Thursday outside the retailer’s...
Workers at John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International airports will receive three $0.75 raises to their minimum wage over the next three years under an expanded minimum wage policy proposed by the Port Authority of...
Members of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York rallied in downtown Brooklyn to advance their yearslong push to build an affordable housing project near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Unions representing construction...
A supervisor at Horizon Juvenile Center in the Bronx has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he beat a 16-year-old detainee and then tried to cover it up. Daquan Seymour, an associate youth development specialist who worked at the Bronx...
An 18-year-old state employee was killed Saturday by a falling tree while battling the Jennings Creek forest fire in Orange County, authorities said. Dariel Vasquez was assisting with fire line construction, according to Jeremy...
