Amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrant graduate students and faculty, unions representing academic workers are pushing universities to step up and protect their members. At New York University, the union representing around 930...
A former New York City Department of Education business manager who went on to consult for the DOE has been sentenced to six months in prison after admitting he rigged bids on contracts at nearly 30 schools, siphoning more than $140,000 from the...
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed bipartisan legislation creating a $500 million tax credit program for manufacturing businesses in a bid to expand in-state manufacturing and spur job creation, with a focus on clean energy industries. Murphy...
The head of the faculty and staff union at the City University of New York has called on Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez to immediately address what he described as the chronic problem of adjunct professors receiving their paychecks late at the...
With new calls to ban the historic horse-carriage industry operating out of Central Park, drivers find themselves defending their practice against animal abuse accusations and legislation that could put them out of work.
Hundreds of nurses gathered at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel last week to begin their fight for more equitable contracts with New York City’s private-sector hospitals...
Workers at GrowNYC ratified their first ever collective bargaining agreement last week after two years of bargaining with management at the environmental not-for-profit. The three year contract covering over 100 workers includes provisions to improve...
Full-career FDNY firefighters and fire officers who retired last year were eligible to average annual pensions of $171,336, up 13 percent from the prior year, according to data crunched by the open-government group Empire Center. Among 430...
Hot Girls for Zohran, Latinos for Zohran, Gays for Zohran and Service Workers for Zohran are just some of the many grassroots affinity groups created this year to support Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani in the democratic primary for mayor....
On the 90th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act, lawmakers and union leaders are trying to protect Americans’ Social Security benefits and the employees who run the Social Security...
In a blistering response to Mayor Eric Adams’ vetoes of City Council bills that would have boosted the pay and protections of delivery workers, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams accused the mayor of turning his back on the working class and cozying...
A $14.4 million outlay in state Workforce Development Awards will bolster teacher training programs at State University of New York and City University of New York campuses and private colleges, Governor Kathy Hochul announced last...
Hundreds of workers who cleaned the city’s subways during the pandemic’s height will receive $3 million in back pay under a settlement with two companies secured by City Comptroller Brad Lander. Nearly 400 workers were not paid a prevailing wage...
Amid a lengthy contract spat with a union representing student workers, Columbia University has started eliminating dozens of teaching positions held by union members. The Student Workers of Columbia union has been attempting to bargain for a new...
Outside of the Museum of Chinese in America, a group of community members and workers as part of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown hold tattered cardboard signs, worn from use over the years. “MOCA is selling out Chinatown!” they shout,...
The all-female ambulance corps serving Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is adding a second ambulance, a move Ezras Nashim’s leaders are hopeful will increase its ability to answer calls for emergency medical care and cut down on response...
City lifeguards who testified in the judicial trial of Peter Stein – the longtime president of the lifeguard supervisor's union – say they’re facing retaliation at the hands of Stein’s former deputies who now run the union. Stein retired from the...
Union leaders are lambasting the Department of Veterans Affairs’ cancellation of most VA employees’ collective bargaining agreements as inherently un-American and a reflection of the administration’s anti-union agenda. Nearly 400,000 workers at...
Staffing shortages and associated administrative issues at the World Trade Center Health Program are compromising the care sought and needed by survivors of the 9/11 terror attacks, according to U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles...
Fewer than 22,000 people took the open competitive exam to become anFDNY firefighter this year despite the department sinking $3 million into a recruitment campaign, pushing back the registration timeline and adding more testing dates, according...
Businesses around the country are reevaluating security after a brazen shooting at a New York City office building raised questions about what it takes to keep workplaces safe. The attack on a seemingly secure building — in a gilded part of...
No dice, say a coalition of Queens residents opposed to the construction of Metropolitan Park, Mets owner and billionaire Steve Cohen’s plan to turn 78 acres of parkland in Flushing into a massive casino complex. “The problem with casinos is that...
A federal appellate court has lifted a temporary block on an executive order allowing agencies to end collective bargaining agreements with the majority of federal workers. The panel of three appellate judges in the Ninth Circuit Court last week...
Despite the mass shooting that killed an NYPD officer and three others in Manhattan last week, the city logged the fewest shootings and shooting victims through the year’s first seven months since 1993, when the department began keeping detailed...
Bruce Hydock didn’t want to retire. By the time he hung up his gear for good, FDNY EMS Captain had already survived testicular cancer and lived with a degenerative lung disorder for more than a decade, both attributed to the time he spent at...