Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun …
In the last year, more than 100,000 asylum-seeking migrants have arrived in New York City looking for shelter, safety and family-sustaining jobs. But leaders of organizations supporting the asylum …
NYU Langone-Brooklyn has routinely broken safe-staffing laws, according to the union that represents the hospital’s nurses. Over the past year-and-a-half, the union, the United Federation of …
A federal appeals court has upheld a nearly $18 million jury verdict compensating more than 2,500 current and former FDNY EMTs for work that had gone unpaid. The EMTs, who filed suit in …
Ruben Estevez, an FDNY radio technician who claimed he has been bullied, harassed and assaulted by the vice president of his union, is still working in the same office as the union official, months …
A dean at a Queens public school was arrested Tuesday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old male student, the Queens District Attorney’s office announced. Melissa Rockensies, 33, formerly the dean of …
A man who allegedly stabbed a 25-year-old emergency medical technician in an ambulance last month was indicted on attempted murder and other charges Monday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office …
An Uber ride along the city’s streets and avenues will contribute that much less to climate change in the coming years if proposed rules by the Taxi and Limousine Commission are enacted. But the …
Panda Express, Au Bon Pain, and 7-Eleven's ‘Raise the Roost’ location in Greenwich Village will collectively have to pay $4.5 million in restitution to nearly 2,400 workers for violating New York …
A nail salon chain with 25 locations in the city will pay out $300,000 to more than 100 current and former employees after having paid them less than minimum wage and not compensating them for …
Alison Colby has worked in publishing and production for more than 30 years. In early 2020, she started work as production editor for Scholastic Corp’s children’s magazines, a position unionized …
Postdoctoral workers at Mount Sinai have overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking, their union announced Monday. Of the 377 members of the Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW who cast votes …
An NYPD officer conspired for months with the leader of a violent Bronx gang with whom she had a romantic relationship, including by trying to help him evade a murder charge, federal officials said …
For a few years after joining the Professional Staff Congress in 2002, Martha Sanchez, a senior lab technician at Bronx Community College, applied for and received several professional development …
City motor vehicle operators bring hot meals and supplies to schools around the city and transport bodies to the morgue. They also shuttle correction officers and other jail staff from the parking …
After fears of a “she-cession” during the pandemic, women have returned to the workforce at unprecedented rates. Much of the gain reflects a boom in jobs traditionally held by women, including …
A Department of Sanitation gig remains one of the most coveted in city civil service. More than 50,000 paid $61 to take the sanitation worker exam starting last September. Ultimately, just under …
School bus employees have voted to authorize a strike, which could potentially cause massive disruptions for tens of thousands of New York City public school students and their families at the start …
When 1,500 part time professors at the New School walked out on strike last fall , thousands of their undergraduate students showed their support and solidarity by walking the picket line and, as the …
The union representing 500 NJ Transit locomotive engineers is mailing out strike authorization ballots to its members this week, with the union’s president certain that after more than three years …
A Manhattan State Supreme Court justice has blocked the Adams administration’s plan to switch about 250,000 municipal retirees and their dependents into a cost-saving, for-profit health-care plan, …
The former head of security for then-Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded guilty Wednesday to repeatedly hindering a Department of Investigation probe into de Blasio’s misuse of his security detail and was …
The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development will designate 300 buildings to investigate in the next year to ensure that they have working self-closing doors, one outcome of the …
Edward D. Mullins, the strident former president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, was sentenced Aug. 3 to two years in prison for swindling hundreds of thousands dollars from the union he …
The strike by Hollywood actors and writers threatens to have significant ripple effects in New York City, where industry stages, sound studios and production lots have shut down, some having closed …