Two pilots aboard an Air Canada regional flight were killed late Sunday night after their plane collided with a Port Authority emergency vehicle on the runway at LaGuardia Airport, officials said, prompting a shutdown of the airport as...

Recent public safety budget hearings reveal the growing rift between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD — one centered on overtime spending and the administration’s push to expand a new Department of Community Safety, representing his desire to...

The WNBA and players union met for nearly 12 hours trying to get a new collective bargaining agreement deal done to start the upcoming season on time. Union executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson said early Wednesday morning, 10 hours after...

As suicide rates in the construction industry continue to outpace on-site fatalities, the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York has launched a peer support initiative aimed at confronting what leaders describe as an...

The increase in FDNY ambulance response times to life-threatening medical emergencies is likely due to a lack of appropriate staffing in the ranks of FDNY EMS, a new Independent Budget Office report found. The audit analyzed city response time...

A New York City correction officer admitted in federal court this week to fabricating injuries in a scheme that made him more than $370,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, authorities said—exposing what investigators describe as a broader...

New York City’s civic service program is back at full capacity and producing following a $3.2 million investment by the administration of former Mayor Eric Adams in September 2025 to sustain the program after the Trump administration took a torch...

Students, faculty and advocates gathered at City Hall on Tuesday to demand the city boost funding and fully staff the City University of New York (CUNY) system. They were joined by Rita Joseph, chair of the city council’s committee on higher...

In a move that deepened tensions between union leaders and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor recently expressed support for a plan to share city employees’ healthcare data with insurers, compromising workers’ privacy in exchange for projected cost...

Leadership of unions representing FDNY EMTs, paramedics and EMS officers once again warned that their low pay is driving first responders out of FDNY EMS, leading to worse response times and improper care for New Yorkers. Speaking at a City...

Since unionizing in 2024, employees at Nitehawk Cinema’s Prospect Park branch have been bargaining for a first contract that would increase worker safety conditions, hourly pay and healthcare benefits; concerns which have yet to be met by...

The city’s Law Department is working to set up an online portal where it will post tens of thousands of documents in the city’s possession from the period after the 9/11 attacks, Steve Banks, the city’s Corporation Counsel overseeing the...

Labor leaders, elected officials and community advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall on March 10 to launch the “$30 for Our City” campaign, backing legislation that would gradually raise New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour. The...

Almost four years after they began bargaining with its unionized employees, management at the outoor equipment retailer REI Co-op has declared an official bargaining impasse and walked away from the negotiating table, workers say.   Last...

Federal prosecutors unveiled felony conspiracy charges against two former NYPD officers accusing the duo of stealing cash and keys from a brothel and then returning hours later to grope and steal money from a sex worker. On a muggy July day...

You were the first woman commissioner of the FDNY, what sort of challenges did you encounter when you started that job? "It's one thing to climb a mountain when you're following a trail, its still really hard, leadership is hard, but when you're not able to follow a trail, and you're trying to get to the top of the mountain, it takes you twice as long..."

For 23 years, Lethimyle “Myle” Cleveland worked the midnight tour in Brooklyn — patrolling in the darkness, answering radio calls and responding to emergencies until the early morning hours. Those long nights on patrol helped shape a career that...

When Celeste Kirkland started her career in the MTA as a station agent 20 years ago, she knew that she wouldn't stay in that position for long. Women have held clerical or customer service roles in the New York City Transit Authority, especially...

Hundreds of protestors gathered outside City Hall on March 8 to call for better working conditions for home health aides and the passage of the “No More 24” act, which would set limits on the hours employers can require them to work. Organizers...

When Samantha Martin entered the construction industry at 21, she was stepping into a world where women were still a rarity on most job sites. The path from apprentice carpenter to union leader would require long days, physical labor and the...

District Council 37 delegates passed a watered-down resolution that announced the union “opposes additional funding” for Immigration and Customs Enforcement but that fell short of calling for ICE to be abolished, as some delegates desired. The...

In a packed arena in Albany on Sunday filled with over 15,000 union members, Governor Kathy Hochul joined calls backed by union leaders representing millions of New Yorkers to reform the Tier 6 pension plan. “I'm fighting for a fairer...

Some have called them the “gatekeepers of secrets.” Others call them the “heartbeat of the city.” From lobby desks and service corridors, the doormen and building workers of New York witness the everyday life of the world’s best city...

In response to drastic cuts at The New School, university students, faculty and staff marched down West 12th Street on March 4th to hand deliver a letter and petition addressed to university president Joel Towers. “While the President’s Office...

Hundreds of workers flocked to Albany last week for the latest step in an effort to convince lawmakers, particularly Governor Kathy Hochul, to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers. The Tax The Rich campaign is backed by a number of unions,...