A bill aimed at improving safety for EMS workers and named for an FDNY EMS officer who was fatally stabbed in the line of duty passed both the State Assembly and State Senate last week. The bill named for Lieutenant Alison Russo-Elling, a 24-year...
Healthcare workers affected by planned layoffs at NewYork-Presbyterian protested the cuts at a press conference this week. Members of the New York State Nurses Association, 1199 SEIU and Communications Workers of America Local 1104 rallied near...
The longtime president of the New York City Central Labor Council, Vincent Alvarez, is stepping down from the role at the end of the month. Alvarez, who has led the nation's largest regional labor federation for the last 14 years, has...
Workers at five different tabletop board game cafés in Manhattan and Brooklyn reached a tentative agreement with management for a first union contract late last month after a year and a half of bargaining. The agreement covers nearly 100 workers...
After three-and-a-half years negotiating a first contract, an administrative law judge at the National Labor Relations Board determined that KIPP Academy Charter School engaged in bad faith bargaining by purposely stalling the bargaining...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The union leader federal agents detained at an immigration protest in Los Angeles last week is well known to California’s Democratic leadership from his years of...
An insurgent slate of Local 3005 members swept the union’s leadership elections last month, winning all four of the union’s top leadership positions, every seat on the executive board and its three trustee positions. All 13 members on the ‘Rank...
A union representing 185,000 cleaners, security guards, airport workers and property service workers is putting its weight behind a suit aiming to preserve the Temporary Protective Status for more than 200,000 Haitian immigrants. A humanitarian...
Nurses urged leadership at Albany Medical Center to settle a contract that will address staffing woes plaguing the facility. In 2021, the state passed laws requiring hospitals to establish committees to set safe-staffing ratios. The state...
Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, is focused on fixing Tier 6, raising para pay, and improving healthcare for his members and other municipal workers. The longtime union leader won his sixth-term, securing 54...
The owners and managers of a New Jersey construction company have been indicted on conspiracy and money laundering charges for defrauding more than $9 million in unpaid workers’ compensation premiums from the New York State Insurance Fund,...
Laura Genovese was, in her words, getting “worked up.” Speaking at a town hall event hosted by downtown Manhattan Council Member Christopher Marte last week, the former Department of Education secretary said she was puzzled by the lack of...
The Uniformed Firefighters Association has joined a coalition of unions looking to persuade President Donald Trump to use potential proceeds from the sale of two government-sponsored enterprises to construct workforce housing...
Firefighter Michael Kotzo had to act fast. Standing on the roof of a blazing Manhattan building last year, Kotzo had just lowered fellow firefighter Jason Lopez and the fire victim that Lopez had rescued from a top floor apartment to the...
With predictions for a busy hurricane season now underway, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swirling winds: Massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to...
With less than two weeks to go until the start of early voting in the Democratic primary for Mayor, union endorsements have continued to flood in for the race’s front runner Andrew Cuomo and the ascendant Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani. While the...
Most municipal employees would be enrolled in a new, cost-saving health benefit plan city officials say would allow them to see more doctors, specialists and other clinicians than their current plans, Mayor Eric Adams and Labor Commissioner Renee...
The president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, handily won a sixth consecutive three-year term as head of the 200,000-member union, this time beating two challengers. Mulgrew and the Unity Caucus candidates received 54...
Five area Amtrak employees who participated in a widespread multi-million-dollar scam to defraud the railroad’s health benefit plan have pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy counts that could each net them a decade behind bars, Department of...
David Haro spent most of Thursday, May 29 at his electronically-powered standing desk working on two new computer monitors with a wireless mouse and keyboard inside Make the Road New York’s state-of-the-art $38 million community center in Queens....
Midwives at two public hospitals in the Bronx whose contract expired 23 months ago voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike after their demands for safe-staffing were ignored, the New York State Nurses Association announced. Midwives at two NYC...
Delivery workers and their allies rallied outside of City Hall on Wednesday to sound the alarm about a policing policy change that has led to hundreds of immigrant delivery workers receiving criminal summons for routine traffic violations....
Members of the District Council 37 Retirees Association called on the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees to put an end to the association’s administratorship. The Retirees Association, which represents more than 25,000...
Members of three American Federation for Government Employees locals rallied outside the Veterans Administration hospital on East 23rd Street Wednesday to protest a Trump administration proposal to fire tens of thousands of Department of Veterans...
Libraries across the United States are cutting back on e-books, audiobooks and loan programs after the Trump administration suspended millions of dollars in federal grants as it tries to dissolve the Institute of Museum and Library...