Members of the New York State Nurses Association union at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract agreement on Aug. 28 that improves safe staffing standards, institutes more workplace violence protections,...
The Civil Service Employees Association and the Public Employee Federation ratified contracts with New York State in August, settling five-year pacts that give members 4.5 percent raises in the contract's first year retroactive to April. Together,...
The stabbing of a TWU Local 100 station cleaner at the Times Square-42nd Street subway station this week has underscored the growing cooperation between transit workers and law enforcement through the New York State Public Safety Alliance, as...
The city's labor negotiators will soon have a new leader. Renee Campion, commissioner of New York City's Office of Labor Relations since 2019, will retire Dec. 1. A 24-year veteran of the office, Campion informed staff of her plans on...
The city’s consumer and worker-protection agency is teaming up with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to more closely pursue wage theft, worker exploitation and other economic crimes, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced August 20. Under a new...
"Pattern bargaining has held paraprofessionals back for decades." That was the assertion made by United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew in an email sent to union members after a City Council bill granting teachers' aides a $10,000 payment became law...
Patrick Moran, left, was elected president of the American Federation of State County and Municipal employees during the 1.4-million-member union's international convention in Chicago last week following the retirement of former president Lee...
Postdoctoral researchers at Columbia University voted by over 90 percent margin to authorize a strike over the weekend after six months of negotiations at the bargaining table failed to result in a contract. Both the union and management...
A Department of Investigation probe into potentially fraudulent workers’ compensation claims by city correction officers contributed to saving the city approximately $175 million in the city’s costs over the past two fiscal years, according to...
Clad in bright orange ponchos, construction workers, labor leaders and elected officials braved the rain Thursday to rally against unsafe and exploitative labor practices they said are occurring at Kingsland Commons, a city-funded affordable...
Legislation that grants $10,000 bonuses to around 26,000 paraprofessionals in New York City backed by the United Federation of Teachers, became law on Wednesday when the bill was returned unsigned by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. But City Hall says it...
A bill that would compel the New York City Department of Emergency Management to issue a emergency notifications any time the FDNY's EMS service has more than 25 pending ambulance dispatches was introduced this month. Proposed by City Council...
The union representing New York City’s carriage drivers is pushing back against calls to eliminate the horse-drawn carriage industry, arguing that workers should not lose their livelihoods over an electrical problem it says city officials and the...
A bill that would preserve city retirees’ current healthcare benefits was reintroduced Thursday by City Council Member Christopher Marte hours after he rallied with a group of retired city workers on the steps of City Hall. Similar legislation...
A former chief information officer for New York City’s Independent Budget Office was indicted after allegedly returning to the agency’s offices after his termination and downloading more than 4,000 files containing sensitive government data,...
United Federation of Teachers demanded that the Teachers’ Retirement System rollback its reduction accident disability pension benefits allowances for183 retired paraprofessionals and forgo its demands that the retirees pay back tens of...
Two new unions of workers at the Fortune Society and New York Immigration Coalition were this month this week by the NLRB after a third-party check of workers’ union authorization cards. Over 400 workers at the Fortune Society, a prison re-entry...
The NYPD has seized 3,259 guns from New York City streets so far this year, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Thursday, as the department credited its gun seizures and multi-agency enforcement efforts with contributing to record-low levels of shootings and murders...
An intra-District Council 37 feud over bargaining, rank-and-file democracy and internal reform escalated this week when the presidents of two city-worker unions filed internal union charges that seek the removal of the president of a third...
Frustrated by a lack of progress on bargaining with management for a new contract, the union representing over 160 frontline healthcare workers at Planned Parenthood in the greater New York City area voted last week to conduct a lunchtime picket...
When Robert Croghan first became a New York City public employee over 55 years ago, workers used Dictaphones to record conversations and crafted reports and memos on typewriters inside stuffy rooms without air conditioning. At the time,...
Artificial intelligence has produced a range of reactions across New York City s labor movement. Some unions have embraced the technology as a tool that can support workers, while others have fought to limit its use where it threatens jobs...
As artificial intelligence threatens to destabilize the working lives of millions of Americans, workers across the country are increasingly turning to unions to demand protections — and new polling suggests they trust few other institutions to do...
Adjunct faculty at NYU campaigning to win paid family leave received support last week from 34 New York City lawmakers who say that the added benefit would help the academic workers as well as students at the university. The workers have been...
The eye-popping $570,419 pension compensation raked in by former longtime lifeguard union leader Peter Stein last year laid out in a report from the Empire Center came as no surprise to his foils in the lifeguard corps who lived through...