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,...
After years of frustration over pay, workplace changes and a shifting company culture, air dispatchers and operations workers at JetBlue Airways voted Feb. 26 to join the Transport Workers Union of America, reviving a union drive that had...
Workers at the Patagonia store in downtown Manhattan say that upper management is breathing down their necks as they push to unionize their workplace, seeking greater job security and the restoration of lost benefits. Last month, workers at...
At a rally staged just after New York University’s unionized full-time, non-tenure track faculty held their latest bargaining session with university management, union leadership announced that if they don’t have a contract by March 23, they will...
Early Thursday morning, federal immigration agents entered a Columbia University residential building after displaying a poster for a missing 5-year-old girl and detained a student identified as Ellie Aghayeva. Neither the Department of Homeland...
Top FDNY officials and leadership of the unions representing FDNY first responders released their long-simmering frustration with a scourge found on countless city streets that they say makes firefighters, and all New Yorkers, less safe....
A viral snowball fight in Washington Square Park following New York City’s historic weekend snowfall has escalated into the first major public political confrontation between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD’s powerful police unions — exposing...
Even before the snow started falling on Sunday, New York City employees were traversing streets, sidewalks and staircases across the five boroughs, readying the city for what was predicted to be a historic snowfall. Twenty-four hours later, the...
A Feb. 13 meeting of the Municipal Labor Committee, presented to union leaders as an informational briefing on New York City’s new employee health plan, has sparked controversy after leaked audio revealed discussions about sharing municipal...
When Mayor Mamdani released his budget last week, he announced he would not move forward with former Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to hire 5,000 additional police officers and instead proposed cutting $22 million from the NYPD’s budget. The move has...
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has secured more than $500,000 in restitution for freelance workers after finding a Manhattan-based production company repeatedly failed to pay independent creatives on time, city...
Members of the New York State Pipe Trades Association elected Edward Nadeau to serve a four-year term as the next president of the statewide. The NYSPTA is a subsidiary of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and...
“I worked 24-hour shifts for 10 years and never got uninterrupted sleep,” said home care worker Xue Zhencheng at a Feb. 18 hearing reintroducing the “No More 24” bill, which would ban 24-hour shifts for home health aides. First introduced in...
NewYork-Presbyterian nurses announced Thursday that they had reached a second tentative agreement with hospital management a week after voting down their initial pact. The new agreement improves staffing standards and layoff protections key issues...
The city may have to raise property taxes and raid rainy day funds, including the Retiree Health Benefit Trust Fund, to close a massive budget gap for the coming fiscal year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani warned on Tuesday. Presenting the first preliminary...
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Many New York State retirees will pay hundreds of dollars more in healthcare premiums each month under Governor Kathy Hochul's budget proposal to eliminate a Medicare reimbursement program. ...
Not long after you pass through turnstiles and enter the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn, you’re greeted by photos of workers who created and maintained the city’s transit system. The sandhogs, tracklayers, construction workers and...
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On a normal Wednesday morning, a correction officer at Rikers Island was making his routine rounds when he felt what he later described as “sandpaper” scrape across his face. It was not sandpaper but a shiv wielded by an inmate, Shemar Shaw, a reputed gang member being held at Rikers on charges that he stabbed a man at Rockefeller Center...
In an industry defined by physical risk, construction workers in New York are beginning to acknowledge a new safety crisis – one of substance abuse and mental health struggles – which labor leaders say have gone unaddressed for...
The longtime international president of the American Federation of County, State and Municipal Employees announced last week that he would step down from his position in August, when the massive public employee union is set to hold its next...
In a first for the Transit Supervisors Organization, now known as TWU Local 106, the union’s entire leadership has been reelected without opposition, union officials announced following nominations held Feb. 12. All 21 officers on the Executive...
Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian overwhelmingly voted to reject a tentative agreement union leadership reached with management last weekend over that would have ended workers’ monthlong strike. Rank-and-file union members were outraged when...
A long-sought memo from October 2001 reveals that city officials feared 9/11 first responders and survivors returned to lower Manhattan too soon after the terror attacks, weren’t being provided with proper protective equipment and could suffer due to the toxic exposure.