Long-sought initiatives to protect the job security of delivery workers, protect street vendors and expand the pay and benefits of construction workers passed The City Council on Thursday. The measures, some pushed by labor unions and...
New York University clinical associate professor Dustin Jones handed an escalation letter from NYU’s contract faculty union to the university’s senior advisor for presidential priorities and initiatives at Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Dec. 16....
At most workplaces, there is a boss and an employee. The boss calls the shots — how much employees get paid, what drinks get put on the menu, what the exterior and interior design of the workplace will look like and more. If workers get burnt out,...
The construction industry in the United States is increasingly reliant on foreign-born workers, a group that’s come under increased threat this year from the Trump administration. More than 2.8 million construction workers were foreign born in...
Deep and widespread cuts planned in the coming weeks by the administration of The New School to fill a $48 million budget hole has spurred the educators, staff members and students of the university into open rebellion. Already workers and...
UPS violated New York Labor Law and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act by stealing wages from seasonal workers through failing to pay seasonal workers wages that were promised, a minimum wage or overtime wages, New York State Attorney General...
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has once again delayed the release of documents generated by the city in the weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that were the subject of a 2023 Freedom of Information Law request. The pushback, announced Dec....
Unionized workers, advocates, elected officials and babies rallied for universal child care outside Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in Midtown on Dec. 11, urging the governor to follow through on her goal to put New York on a path to universal child care...
Workers who deliver Amazon packages from a facility in Woodside Queens marched on their bosses on Tuesday to declare that they are unionizing with Local 804 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Around 200 workers at the DBK1 facility...
Several bills aimed at increasing pay equity in the city’s private sector were passed by the City Council last week, overriding vetoes by Mayor Eric Adams. The pay equity bills were two of the four bills vetoed by Adams that the Council overrode...
Several dozen editorial workers at Business Insider who are unionized with the NewsGuild of New York held a lunchtime rally Thursday to protest management’s adoption of artificial intelligence tools to produce news stories. Just before workers...
Post-doctoral researchers from the Einstein Researchers United Union rallied outside of the Price Building Wednesday calling for labor protections and fair wages from the Einstein College of Medicine administration. The gathering happened right...
Chaos unfolded outside of the Empire State Building Thursday afternoon as a dozen striking Starbucks workers were arrested by NYPD officers. In the latest escalation of Starbucks Workers United’s nationwide strike, 12 unionized Starbucks workers...
Elected officials and workers rallied on a cold and rainy day in Park Slope on Dec. 2 to demand that a restaurant owner pay immigrant workers still awaiting millions from a wage theft settlement. The New York State Department of Labor...
The city’s pool monitors are up in arms after three lifeguards and two lifeguard supervisors who failed a recertification swim test over the summer were fired by the Parks Department. The same day that several of the lifeguards took and failed the...
Amid a nationwide strike of 2,500 workers at over 120 Starbucks locations, the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced Monday that the city had reached a nearly $39 million dollar settlement with the coffee chain over more...
All 70 NYCHA employees connected to a bribery scheme uncovered in February 2024 have now been convicted, the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday. Dozens of employees participated in a decades-long...
Documents generated in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by the city’s Department of Environmental Protection that were released earlier this month has offered World Trade Center responders and their advocates the first glimpse into revelations on what city officials knew about the toxins that lingered over ground zero in the aftermath of the twin towers’ collapse.
On Nov. 24, workers at the Al Gore-backed technology refurbisher and seller Back Market announced their union, Back Market United, ahead of the e-commerce company’s busiest week of the year. “E-commerce businesses typically don’t unionize, so this is impressive for them to do...
About two dozen plumbers in denim uniforms and chunky brown boots stood behind city and union leaders at a Western Queens training center on Monday as officials announced a labor deal designed to create more middle-class jobs...
Citing the need for cohesion and continuity, NYPD unions welcomed Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s decision to remain in the post as Zohran Mamdani, the near-antithesis of his law-order predecessor, prepares to take office. The presidents of...
Office cleaners who service buildings at 373 and 381 Park Avenue South rallied last week to protest against policies instituted by their bosses the first day they started owning the buildings. Planned Building Services has told the union...
Nearly 1,000 professional and non-professional staff at The Metropolitan Museum of Art last week petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election, joining a wave of museum workers across the country seeking collective bargaining...
Firefighters encounter thousands of harmful potentially cancer-causing chemicals each time they don their firefighting gear to battle blazes across the city. But for decades, FDNY firefighters have been using gear that itself contains dangerous...
Health care workers, union leaders and local politicians took to the cold sidewalk in front of the Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn on Nov. 19 to rally against an infrastructure plan for the hospital that workers said is unsafe and could...