NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has announced a series of department-led efforts to crack down on crime and disorder, particularly in the subway, in part by combating so-called “quality of life” offenses. Saying that officers have “too long” been...
The Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York last month became the third public sector union to pass a resolution calling on members’ pensions to be divested from Israeli companies, bonds and securities. The 30,000-member...
In order to address the shortage of paraprofessionals in the city’s public school system, the United Federation of Teachers joined several members of the City Council Thursday to push for the passage of a bill that would provide paras with annual...
A second former FDNY chief in the department’s Bureau of Fire Prevention who was accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for expediting inspections of certain buildings has pleaded guilty, federal prosecutors...
A Brooklyn arbitrator has ordered NYU Langone-Brooklyn to reinstate nine nurses with back pay after they were terminated following an incident in which a pregnant woman gave birth unattended on a hallway floor, according to their union. On Dec....
The president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, Richard Davis, has been suspended from his post following allegations that he pressured a union employee into having sex with him on several occasions and then threatened to kill her if she spoke...
Transport union leaders are getting behind a plan to prevent assaults on bus operators; eliminating fares on all buses citywide. The proposal comes from Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist candidate for Mayor who has made...
Although the city municipal workforce’s vacancy rate has significantly shrunk compared to the heights reached during the Covid pandemic, certain agencies and titles are struggling to recruit and retain employees. The city workforce currently has...
About 250 workers who cleaned parts of Rikers Island during the pandemic will share just over $1 million from a Nassau County cleaning service that failed to pay them adequately and whose crew chiefs pressured them for kickbacks to keep their...
Despite the fact that social workers, counselors and other human services workers employed at non-profit agencies across New York City were more highly educated than their public-sector counterparts, nonprofit employees typically earned...
Since March 2020 more than 25,000 911 calls have been redirected to a city telehealth program aimed at reducing the number of unnecessary ambulance transports to hospitals. The program, Virtual ExpressCare, has prevented 12,000 of these...
The “Boss of the Beach” has turned in his swim trunks and hung up his rescue buoy. After more than 40 years of stewarding the lifeguard supervisors’ union and 65 years after he first patrolled Manhattan Beach, Peter Stein has fully...
Legislation introduced by state lawmakers would exempt first responders, veterans, medical personnel and others from the newly instituted congestion pricing toll when they drive into Manhattan’s central business district with their personal...
Some doctors in the city’s public hospital system aren’t happy with the tentative contract recently reached between the Doctors Council and their private-sector affiliate employers. The deal, which starts Aug. 25, 2023 and is set to expire Aug....
The number of cops leaving the NYPD remains high, posing an ongoing challenge for a department struggling to attract candidates. The NYPD added just 2,600 new recruits last year, not enough to replenish the 2,951 cops who retired or quit in...
A fat cat, a pig wearing a top hat and five rats. All seven inflatables faced the 34th street entrance of the Empire State Building on Thursday, two weeks into a protest by members of Laborers Local 79 who rallied, hundreds strong, in the shadow...
On a late December day in 1964 I visited Granny at the Hazleton State Hospital, an old brick building in Pennsylvania once known as the Miners’ Hospital. She was on the first floor in a big open space. Large windows and screens, wheelchairs and...
Workers who clean Con Edison facilities in Manhattan have turned up the pressure in the new year to win improved benefits and pay from Nelson Service Systems, the contractor employing dozens of cleaners across the city. Many of the workers...
Responding to the recent series of violent attacks in the subway, among them the fatal burning of Debrina Kawam on an F train in Coney Island and the stabbing of an MTA worker at the Pelham Parkway station, Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Commissioner...
Dozens of lawmakers are urging the governor to increase funding for programs that provide student loan assistance for public defenders, public interest attorneys and prosecutors across the state. Nearly 70 legislators signed onto a Jan. 16 letter...
Following the reelection late last year of Mike Carrube to a third five-year term as president of the Subway Surface Supervisors Association, union members are raising the alarm about what they say is the union leaders' quashing of dissent. The...
About 90 percent of the members of the Professional Staff Congress who voted have chosen to ratify a contract agreement with the City University of New York that will provide compounded raises of 13.4 percent and a $3,000 ratification bonus, the...
Legislation ensuring that city employees who move to a different agency don’t experience a lapse in their healthcare coverage was signed into law by Mayor Eric Adams Monday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last week announced the indictment of Kendis Paul, the owner of KEP Construction, on charges of stealing $67,000 from 10 former employees working at an Upper West Side construction site from September 2023...
Although doctors in the city’s public hospital system have temporarily halted a planned work stoppage, their disappointment over staffing shortages and a policy that has halved appointment times for new patients hasn't gone away in the...