More than 150 NYU professors gathered near Washington Square Park last week for the second time in as many weeks to announce that they’ve asked NYU leadership to voluntarily recognize their union …
The FDNY has been threatened with yet another racial discrimination lawsuit, this time from the National Association of Hispanic Firefighters, which is alleging that the department hasn’t done …
Norman Seabrook, the former head of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association who began a nearly five-year prison term in May 2021 following his conviction on a federal wire fraud charge and a …
While unions representing municipal workers applauded the tentative contract agreement reached between the city and District Council 37, the state comptroller’s office projected that the city’s …
Workers engaged in 417 strikes in 2022, a year-over-year increase of more than 50 percent, with the number of workers participating in work stoppages rising 60 percent compared with 2021, researchers …
To address the high rate of unemployment among 16-to-24 year-olds in New York City, the City Council has proposed legislation that would require the city to create a yearlong mentorship initiative …
Dozens of Uber and Lyft drivers shut off their apps and picketed in front of LaGuardia Airport for 12 hours on Sunday to protest what the drivers say are unfair and unjust deactivations of their …
Resident physicians at Montefiore Medical Center voted to join SEIU’s Committee of Interns and Residents, the union announced Feb. 23.The vast majority of fellows and interns at the Bronx hospital …
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Farmworkers in New York State will begin receiving overtime pay for working over 40 hours in a week — in 10 years. That’s how long new Department of Labor rules will take to fully kick in …
Attorneys, paralegals, support staff and other employees at the New York Legal Assistance Group frustrated with what they say are heavy workloads, increasing health-care costs and stagnant wages …
Nearly 380 employees at the city Human Resources Administration filed a lawsuit earlier this month over unpaid overtime and are seeking back pay. The eligibility specialists, who verify whether …
Calling prison labor “inhumane and unacceptable,” U.S. Senator Cory Booker last week introduced legislation that would classify inmates who work while incarcerated as employees as defined by …
At the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, empty stomachs were walking down empty halls. Despite the return to in-person work, and the wish to congregate with others, students, …
Book editors, sales associates, designers, marketers and other workers at the publishing giant HarperCollins were to return to their office in lower Manhattan Tuesday with a new contract that …
The city and District Council 37 have reached a tentative contract agreement that includes 16.21 percent raises over the span of a 65-month period and establishes a committee set to explore telework …
Regina Wilson, pictured above at center left, was sworn into her third two-year term as president of the Vulcan Society alongside her six board members by Mayor Eric Adams Feb. 15 during the fraternal …
FDNY EMTs and paramedics took 35 more seconds to travel to the scene of medical emergencies during the four-month period ending in October than they did a year earlier, according to the recently …
One billion dollars. That’s how much unscrupulous New York State employers are stealing from workers each year, according to Cornell University’s Worker Institute. It happens in every …
A teleworking policy developed by lawyers in the city’s Law Department during the final year of the de Blasio administration was scrapped by Eric Adams days after he became mayor, contributing to a …
Two former superintendents at the city Housing Authority who admitted to soliciting bribes in exchange for awarding work contracts at their respective developments were sentenced to prison time and …
Several dozen workers rallied alongside State Senator Jessica Ramos and Assembly Member Latoya Joyner in lower Manhattan last week to support a bill introduced by the lawmakers that would protect …
They’re doing time. But inmates in New York State correctional facilities also work, producing items as diverse as office furniture, textile and apparel goods, uniforms, signs, even eyeglasses and, …
Staffing shortages in the city workforce have slowed down key services, including the processing of food stamps applications, the administration of civil-service exams and sidewalk inspections, a …
The city will lift its Covid vaccine mandate for municipal employees, but workers who lost their jobs for refusing to get the shot will not be reinstated, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. City …
