The city’s program in which behavioral health teams respond to emergencies in which New Yorkers are facing a mental health crisis is falling short, according to a recent report from the city comptroller’s office. The Behavioral Health Emergency...
As a funding shortfall threatens the federal program that provides treatment for tens of thousands of people affected by the September 11 attacks, dozens of state attorneys general last week urged Congress to ensure its continued...
Suffolk County will make significant infrastructure repairs to two jails, hire an environmental health professional and pay $18 million to current and former detainees and inmates, among other provisions, to settle a longstanding class-action suit...
Bidding to alleviate the city’s need for working-class housing, Resorts World Casino New York City and Cirrus Workforce Housing announced plans to build as many as 50,000 units of workforce housing in the coming years. From 2014 to 2024,...
United Auto Workers’ officials reaffirmed their support for the three candidates they endorsed for mayor of New York City Wednesday morning during a small rally outside of City Hall. Union leaders and two of the candidates, Assemblymember Zohran...
More than two dozen New York retired educators collected over $300,000 in pension benefits last year, according to data compiled by the Empire Center. The independent think-tank analyzed data reported by the two teacher pension systems, the...
Many workers at the airport transport company SkyHop Global thought that walking out on strike just before Thanksgiving – the start of the busiest season for the company – would be enough to convince management to agree to a first union contract....
A decade ago, Scott Osborn would have eagerly told prospective vineyard owners looking to join the wine industry to "jump into it." Now, his message is different. "You're crazy," said Osborn, who owns Fox Run Vineyards, a sprawling 50-acre farm...
Union leaders were elated following the lifting of a stop-work order imposed last month by the Trump administration on the Empire Wind project, the wind farm off the southwest coast of Long Island. The project had generated more than 1,000 union...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man was convicted Monday of fatally stabbing a longtime emergency services officer in a 2022 unprovoked attack that took place steps away from her station in Queens. The victim, Lt. Alison Russo-Elling, 61,...
Human service workers would need to earn $20,000 more a year in order to earn a living wage, according to a recent report. The number of New Yorkers working in the human services industry has nearly doubled since the year 2000. The percentage of...
The New York State Nurses Association slammed a decision by NewYork-Presbyterian to cut 2 percent of its workforce, which would result in about 1,000 healthcare workers losing their jobs. The health system, which operates 10 facilities across the...
On Sept. 15, 2023, Ashley Diaz found herself inside an ambulance. An FDNY EMT of five years who treated New Yorkers across South Brooklyn and Staten Island, the back of an ambulance wasn’t an unfamiliar place for the young mother to be....
Workers at Sesame Workshop voted 55-19 to join Local 153 of the Office and Professional Employees International Union on Thursday, capping off a union campaign marred by layoffs and allegations of union busting. In the weeks leading up to the...
Three correction officers working at Rikers Island scammed doctors, clinicians and state officials to scheme the city of nearly $1 million in workers’ comp claims by faking injuries they attributed to violent confrontations with inmates at the...
In what likely were final arguments in the years-long battle over whether the city is obligated to provide its 250,000 municipal retirees with no-cost Medicare and supplemental insurance, attorneys for both sides presented their cases before the...
New Jersey Transit's train engineers reached a tentative deal Sunday to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City. The union...
Nearly a dozen unions across the state sent a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul this week calling on state legislators to pass a pair of bills that would reduce sentences for prisoners and help formerly incarcerated people enter the...
New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike early Friday, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home. The walkout comes after the latest...
Unions representing FDNY firefighters and fire officers endorsed Former Governor Andrew Cuomo for Mayor on Tuesday, following in the footsteps of two unions representing members of FDNY EMS. Leadership of the Uniformed Firefighters Association and...
A second former chief in the FDNY’s Bureau of Fire Prevention has been sentenced to prison for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for expediting building inspections, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Anthony...
Record numbers of retirements and departures, recruitment issues, calls to defund, lingering questions about justice, enforcement. Police departments nationwide have contended with those issues since the killing of George Floyd by...
Overall crime citywide dropped for the seventh straight month in April, contributing to a roughly 8-percent drop in index crimes through the first four months of the year compared with 2024, according to NYPD data. So-called “index crimes”...
A union representing lawyers, paralegals and other workers at legal organizations in New York is the target of a new federal complaint alleging the union failed in its duty to represent Jewish members. But members of the union at the New York...
New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a federal judge found the city had failed to stem spiraling dysfunction and brutality against those in custody. Instead, U.S....