Some members of Congress are asking for their salaries to be withheld during the government shutdown, while federal workers last Friday missed their first full paycheck since many operations closed on Oct. 1. With no movement toward a deal to end...
Starting early mornings, Dominick Romeo emerges from his basement apartment on West 18th Street, and sweeps and hoses a section of sidewalk. Back inside, he straightens out the garbage area. Then it’s on to the building’s lobby, where he vacuums,...
A shutdown of Broadway theaters was averted last week when the union representing musicians in the theater district reached a deal on a tentative agreement for a new contract hours before the union had pledged to walk out on strike. Local 802 of...
With their contracts at a dozen private-sector hospitals across the city expiring at the end of the year, about 20,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association are demanding new agreements that would bring them higher wages but also...
Emergency call operators are being pushed to work 16-hour shifts three days in a row every week to compensate for “chronic understaffing.” That’s what Tabitha Sheppard, the president of a union representing police communication technicians in the...
New Jersey’s teacher workforce remained roughly level in the 2023-2024 school year, but retirements remained elevated above prepandemic levels, according to a Rutgers University report released last week. Though the number of teachers in New...
The federal government shutdown is quickly approaching the second longest on record with no end in sight. Some lawmakers are predicting it could become the longest, surpassing the 35 days from President Donald Trump's first term. The Trump...
With just three out of eight original proposals left in the running in the battle to operate a casino in New York City, Queens community members continue to express strong opposition to one in their borough. More than 250 residents, community...
Dozens of employees at the creator fundraising website Kickstarter have been on strike for more than two weeks, threatening the crowdfunding website’s ability to host the artists and creators that rely on it. The nearly 60 U.S-based unionized...
A coalition of current and retired New York City employees, union leaders and former elected officials is urging city Comptroller Brad Lander to reject the city’s agreement with two major insurance firms to administer health benefits for more than 750,000 active and retired municipal workers and their families....
A bill named after a fallen EMS officer that would have ensured that no EMS provider in New York City travels alone to the scene of an emergency was vetoed by Governor Kathy Hochul last week. The bill was passed by the State Senate and Assembly over the summer and would have closed a loophole allowing EMS workers in the city to be dispatched solo...
In what it called the labor movement’s “first principles” regarding the future of artificial intelligence, the AFL-CIO is calling for enforceable protections to ensure that AI strengthens — and doesn’t threaten — the livelihoods, rights and safety...
It's not often that a FDNY firefighter looks to depart the world of emergency response for City Hall, but that's exactly what Ben Chou, a firefighter based in Engine 298 in Queens, is hoping to do. The active firefighter won a Democratic Primary...
Vice President JD Vance has said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stubborn...
When Rob Coverdale started his job in 2023 as superintendent of the K-12 Crow Creek Tribal School in South Dakota, there were 15 unfilled teaching positions. Within nine months, he had filled those vacancies with Filipino teachers, the majority...
A former City Department of Correction employee has been indicted for allegedly concealing more than $135,000 in payments she received from associates and relatives of Rikers Island inmates and for filing a false state income tax return, Bronx...
Hundreds of former and current home-care workers and their allies rallied last week outside the state Division of Labor Standards in downtown Brooklyn to demand an end to the notorious 24-hour workday. The notorious practice assigns...
Two unions representing Broadway's actors, stage managers and musicians have authorized strikes that threaten to shut down most musicals and plays in the city’s theater district. The executive board of Actors’ Equity Association’s...
Five years ago, Jesse Lopez Martinez and his family started a food truck business in Sunset Park, typically stationing on Fifth Avenue’s commercial strip, between 47th and 48th Street. But despite securing the necessary permits and licenses, he...
A cowbell, a saxophone, drums and chants of solidarity rang out in Midtown Friday as dozens of students and staff of the City University of New York rallied outside CUNY’s central office on East 42nd Street in support of four adjunct faculty...
With the federal government shutdown about to enter its third week, hundreds of thousands of workers across the country could face real and significant financial peril. Some will have received partial pay Friday, but with no resolution to...
The FDNY honored eight of its fallen from the past year at its Memorial Day Service inside St. John the Divine Cathedral on Wednesday, the 118th such service in the department’s history. Those honored include Fire Captain Thomas LaBarbiera, of...
Three unions that frequently take sides in thorny fights over housing, hotel and office developments threw their support behind the movement against three ballot initiatives that proponents say would make it easier to build housing in the city....
The Trump administration may try to interpret a law enacted during his first term in office differently than it did following the last government shutdown, potentially denying back pay to hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal...
Despite an arbitrator’s sanction of a collective bargaining agreement covering workers at an Upstate apple farm, the company has refused to institute its provisions. The deadlock led workers at Wafler Farms in Wayne County late last month...