For the first time in over a decade, the hiring of state workers outpaced attrition in 2023, according to a report from the state comptroller’s office. Although there were 14,699 state employees who retired or left their jobs in 2023, the most...
Leaders of unions representing EMTs, paramedics, EMS officers and fire protection inspectors fed up with the pace of contract negotiations with the city are now optimistically eyeing Eric Adams' possible exit from City Hall next year. Two unions...
Construction sheds have long been a persistent eyesore in New York City. required to install them to protect pedestrians from potential debris while their buildings are undergoing facade repair or further construction. But the scaffolding,...
Nearly 24 years after the 9/11 terror attacks, questions persist about what city officials knew about the toxins that lingered over ground zero and swaths of downtown and Brooklyn in the aftermath of the twin towers’ collapse. The City Council is...
Around 400 legal service workers are on strike this week following the expiration of union contracts at four different legal service providers across the city. More than 1,100 workers at the Legal Aid Society and three other legal service...
Call it a crashing blue wave. A spike in retirements among NYPD officers threatens to undermine Mayor Eric Adams’ assurances that the department will be on a path to a 35,000-officer corps by the fall. Through the first six months of the...
New York City’s construction industry is still struggling to fully recover from the pandemic, a recent report from the state comptroller’s office found. As of last year, there were 143,000 workers employed in the construction sector, meaning that...
Journalists, editors and photographers at the New York Daily News have been bargaining for a first contract with the newspaper’s owners for three years amid cuts, staff reductions and complaints from employees about a lack of raises. Members...
Los Deliveristas Unidos, members of the City Council and worker advocate organizations celebrated the passage of a series of bills that would expand minimum pay and other protections for app-based food delivery workers to grocery delivery workers...
Nearly 100 former state workers were eligible to collect pensions of at least $200,000 in the most recent fiscal year, according to the Empire Center’s crunching of figures from the New York State and Local Retirement System. Last year’s top-five...
Around 600 positions in the Department of Parks and Recreations lost under the Eric Adams administration have still not been restored, park advocates and union leaders say, leading to a degradation in the quality of the city’s open spaces. The...
The union representing faculty and other pedagogical staff at the city’s public university system has called on CUNY’s leadership to reinstate four adjuncts who have publicly protested in support of Palestine and were suddenly not reappointed for...
Pending the result of a lawsuit challenging an executive order from President Trump curtailing collective bargaining rights for federal employees, a U.S. District judge has approved a preliminary injunction halting federal agencies from complying...
The United Federation of Teachers has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor after deciding not to endorse any candidates in last month’s primary election. The UFT’s delegate assembly, which is the union’s highest decision-making body, voted to...
Dozens of American unions and civil society groups have a “deep concern” about the of the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration policies on FIFA’s ongoing Club World Cup and the 2026 Men’s World Cup. Millions of soccer fans from dozens...
Since Zohran Mamdani’s decisive upset victory in the Democratic primary last month, a slew of unions have thrown their support behind his bid to become New York City mayor. Among those backing the 33-year-old Queens assembly member in...
Advocates penned a letter to Mayor Eric Adams urging him to reinstate municipal workers who were fired over refusing to get the Covid vaccine. Thousands of city workers were fired for refusing to comply with the Covid vaccine mandate in February...
With $2.5 million in extra funding included in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, city lawmakers have ended the threat of impending layoffs at the Brooklyn Museum, five months after workers initially learned of planned cuts. After being informed by...
Violent crime in New York City through the first half of the year has dropped compared with 2024, with murders down 23 percent and shootings and shooting victims dropping to record lows, according to the NYPD. Reported rapes, though,...
The city has approved $1 million in funding to launch a pilot “Wellness & Peer Support Program” for EMS workers in the five boroughs. The funding included in the fiscal year 2026 budget, which was finalized at the end of June by the City...
State legislators have passed a bill that would bar the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from operating subways without a conductor. Although most of the city’s subway lines have both an operator and a conductor, the MTA uses One-Person...
A strike being staged by nearly 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia entered its second day Wednesday as a judge ordered some emergency service dispatchers and essential water department employees to return to work. Common Pleas Court Judge Sierra...
Pete Rodriguez didn’t sleep well. When he woke up for work at 6 a.m. on that Tuesday, he had a bagel, a banana and an iced tea. Rodriguez doesn’t usually eat much of anything for breakfast. But this day was different — he was retiring after 45...
Unionized workers at the Legal Aid Society have voted for the first time in 30 years to authorize a strike. With 91 percent support and 99 percent of the bargaining unit participating in the vote, over 1,100 workers have sent the signal that they...
Members of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ and Unite Here! Local 100 joined Governor Kathy Hochul to celebrate the recent expansion of the Healthy Terminals Act, which will provide healthcare and paid leave for airport...