New York City officials announced a record $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash on Tuesday, saying the delivery company underpaid more than 260,000 workers and calling it the largest worker settlement in New York history and the largest...
The final defendant in a scheme that prosecutors say sold fake construction safety certifications to roughly 20,000 workers has pleaded guilty, further prompting condemnation from the city’s building trades over the consequences of fake training...
Workers at She Wolf Bakery in Brooklyn and their allies rallied outside of their Navy Yard workplace on Friday to protest management's refusal to acquiesce to their union's demands on healthcare, wages and more over two years into...
An MTA policy allowing subway station booths to go unstaffed violates the state’s Human Rights Law due to its "unlawful disparate impact" on disabled and impaired riders, a judge ruled on Friday. The ruling blocking future...
Around 20 staffers at the New York Times rallied to highlight their push for a new collective bargaining agreement outside a gala celebrating the newspaper's 175th anniversary in Tribeca on Sept. 17. “This is a show of unity,” said...
FDNY ambulances took, on average, 13 minutes and nine seconds to respond to life-threatening medical emergencies in Fiscal Year 2026, over a one minute and 48 seconds longer than the previous year, according to the Mayor's Management Report. It's...
A former New York City correction officer was sentenced this week to two years of probation and ordered to pay back more than $80,000 after falsely claiming she was on military duty and collecting paid leave from the city for more than a...
The results of two new investigations released this week by New York City’s Department of Investigation expose weaknesses and malfeasance in the administration of the Police Pension Fund, finding that the absence of proper procedures and oversight allowed some NYPD officials to...
Unionized City Council employees rallied on the steps of City Hall Tuesday to call for Council leadership to finalize a contract agreement covering 96 employees whose wage rates have yet to be settled. Dozens of City Council employees in the...
New York City remains one of the most heavily unionized places in the country, but the steady decline of private-sector labor organizing presents a formidable challenge for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pro-labor administration, according to a new report...
Ian O’Hara worked part-time as a barista at Blue Bottle Coffee for almost a year and a half before the company wrongfully terminated him in January, leaving O'Hara “immensely blindsided...
88,136 bottles of hand sanitizer, 38,400 bottles of water, 15,000 masks; these are some of the items that an official appointed to fix the finances of Local 1182 of the Communications Workers of America purchased with...
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union is using the anniversary to renew its push in organizing tens of thousands of New York City security officers, arguing that the workers who help keep the city’s...
Transport Workers Union international president John Samuelsen sent a letter to the leader of TWU Local 100 in July criticizing the local's bargaining strategy for the latest contract covering 40,000 workers at the MTA, displaying a division...
The Public Employees Federation rallied outside the state Department of Financial Services’ Manhattan headquarters Sept. 8, accusing the agency of allowing a yearslong culture of bullying, intimidation and retaliation and calling for an...
The sister of Sean Tallon, 26, who died in the North tower on 9/11, Tallon became a staunch advocate for transparency, accountability, skyscraper safety and 9/11 memorialization in the years after the attacks alongside a bevy of family members...
Eric Chee, a 63-year-old man who grew up in China, remembers the vicarious terror he felt watching news coverage of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. “It was nighttime in Shanghai, my second child was just born...
When the South tower came down, both Andrew Ansbro and Gary Smiley thought they were going to die. 9/11 was the first fire that Ansbro responded to as an FDNY firefighter and he had just been ordered into the tower when millions of tons of steel and concrete came crashing down...
A 20-year-old who had just begun her junior year at NYU at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Nadia Vizueta traveled through lower Manhattan in the weeks after the towers collapsed to conduct interviews with first responders and survivors.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release of more than 170,000 pages of documents from the period after the 9/11 terror attacks that reveals that city officials knew the toxic air and dust surrounding Ground Zero could be potentially harmful...
Union leaders are pushing back against a Municipal Labor Committee effort to expand participation in a health data-sharing program, raising concerns about member consent, insurers’ financial incentives and the potential use of health information...
Gloria Middleton will become chairperson of the umbrella organization of public-sector unions in New York City this month after a leadership slate with her at the head faced no challenge from members of the body's executive board....
Unionized workers at Forbes magazine just ratified their first contract, securing a $65,000 salary floor, as well as stronger job protections and assurances over editorial independence after more than four years of organizing. The...
A federal court ruling striking down the Trump administration’s cuts to H-2A wages is a victory for both agricultural guest workers and domestic farm workers, whose wages the United Farm Workers said were also affected by the lower rates — a...
Robert "Bobby" Eustace began his term as president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association Aug. 1 after winning the election to the top post of the union representing more than 8,500 active firefighters at the FDNY and 15,000 retired...