When a federal judge authorized resuming construction on the Empire Wind offshore project this week, union leaders...
Just before the start of New York City’s largest-ever nurses strike, Mount Sinai terminated three nurses via voicemail...
Leadership of the Uniformed Firefighters Association joined unionized nurses on the picket line today outside of Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. Nearly 15,000 nurses...
A former FDNY lieutenant shot dead by police officers inside Brooklyn Methodist Hospital on Jan. 8 was a highly respected member of the FDNY community with no history of mental illness, those close to his family and who knew him during his tenure said. Michael Lynch...
Federal agents arrested a City Council staffer during a routine court check-in Monday afternoon in Bethpage Long Island, Council Speaker Julie Menin announced on Monday. Rubio Bohorquez has worked as a data analyst in the Council’s central...
Nearly 15,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association are striking after failing to reach new contract agreements at five privately-run New York City hospitals, following a months-long bargaining campaign and after the union reached...
After more than three years of investigation into the finances of the New York State Troopers...
Former New York State Assemblymember RoAnn Destito was elected president of the New York Retired Public Employees Association during its annual meeting in Albany last month. Destito was a member of the Assembly from 1993 to 2011, representing a...
On a grey, blustery day in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Shawn Fain, the international president of the United Auto Workers, endorsed former UAW member Claire Valdez for congress in District 7. A New York State Assemblymember,...
Corrections officers at Rikers Island are sharply criticizing Mayor Mamdani’s new executive order directing the city to implement Local Law 42, which bans solitary confinement in city jails, warning that the move threatens staff safety and ignores...
President of the Deputy Sheriffs Benevolent Association Ingrid Simonovic is urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to retain Sheriff Anthony Miranda, calling his leadership “incompetent” and damaging to the agency...
On Tuesday, Lillian Bonsignore was sworn in as the 37th commissioner of the FDNY, becoming the first openly-gay commissioner and the first person from the department’s EMS ranks to ascend to the FDNY’s top job...
A landmark audit released Dec. 30 by former City Comptroller Brad Lander found that a fund used to help finance health benefits for New York City’s municipal workforce has accumulated at least $3.1 billion in liabilities. The findings...
The city anticipates making the results of the open competitive test for FDNY firefighter public later this month, a spokesperson for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services confirmed this week. The city...
Around 16,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association at five different private sector hospitals across New York City could go on strike on Jan. 12 if the union doesn’t reach agreements with management...
Days after Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he would appoint Lillian Bonsignore as commissioner of the FDNY, right-wing personalities who have long been critical of the mayor attacked his choice. They included Elon Musk, who late last week joined a growing chorus of...
Staffers in the City Council anxious about potential layoffs in the new year received a boost last month in the form of a letter of support signed by over a dozen unions, City Comptroller Brad Lander and seven members of the City Council. Under...
Construction workers will now receive compulsory training on mental health awareness, alcohol and substance abuse as well as suicide risk and prevention under legislation passed by the City Council last month. Intro 1384 sponsored by Council...
Transit workers who park vehicles in bus lanes while performing their jobs will no longer face fines under a new state law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in mid-December...
Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, honestly," says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under...
The Department of Parks and Recreation violated city labor law when it unilaterally changed the guidelines for city lifeguard vision tests, the Board of Collective Bargaining ruled in November. The BCB, which adjudicates disputes between the city...
After a months-long bargaining campaign, the New York State Nurses Association announced that about 20,000 nurses at a dozen private-sector hospitals voted to authorize a strike by a margin of 97 percent, giving their bargaining committees the...
When New York City passed a law in 2021 saying fast food bosses needed a legitimate reason to fire workers, New Yorkers had strong opinions. Critics said it would hurt businesses and kill jobs. Supporters said they needed protection from getting...
With less than a week until Mayor Eric Adams leaves office, unions representing more than 5,100 city workers have yet to agree to new collective bargaining agreements during his term. In the almost four years Adams was in office the city has...
Governor Kathy Hochul earlier this month vetoed a bill that would have mandated two workers to staff every single New York City subway train. The bill backed by Transport Workers Union Local 100 was vetoed by the governor on Dec. 5, but her...