Three of the city’s municipal pension funds would divest from private funds with holdings in midstream and downstream fossil fuel facilities under a proposal announced Tuesday by city Comptroller …
Since the onset of the pandemic, employment in the health care and transportation sectors has grown statewide — but there are fewer people working in retail and government, according to a recent …
A union representing staff at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced its opposition last week to a proposed development on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights that, its opponents say , would cast a …
Dozens of professors and other staff with the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY were arrested Monday evening during a demonstration tied to a prolonged contract fight . More than 30 PSC members, …
The city’s taxi union and City Comptroller Brad Lander are demanding that Uber and Lyft permanently stop kicking drivers off their apps, a practice they say deliberately and unjustly diminishes …
Moving the city’s lifeguard unit to the FDNY would require the support of elected officials but could solve several problems the lifesaving service faces, according to the Independent Budget …
A former NYCHA superintendent has been convicted of federal bribery and extortion counts in connection with the wide-ranging bid-rigging scandal at the nation’s largest public housing authority, …
Throughout the international law enforcement community, retired NYPD Lieutenant Commander Vernon Geberth is known as the “Godfather of Homicide” and “the cop who wrote the book on …
Graduate workers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have voted in favor of unionizing. About 90 percent of the grad workers who participated in the vote supported unionizing, with 218 …
Unions have cheered the passage of City Council legislation designed to create greater accountability within the construction bidding process. The local law, which passed unanimously last …
For the first time since it was placed under administratorship over two years ago, District Council 37’s Local 1549 will hold elections for officer positions within the local. Nominations took …
Eight months before what is shaping up to be a consequential primary, two Teamsters locals have already made their choice for mayor clear. Representatives from International Brotherhood of the …
City cab drivers and their union say that proposed Taxi and Limousine Commission rules mandating that all new cabs need to be wheelchair accessible will bankrupt drivers already burdened by …
The head of the union representing more than 1,100 officers with several state agencies, including the New York State University Police, has called Governor Kathy Hochul’s veto of a bill that would …
Overall crime citywide again dropped in September, marking the ninth straight month of decreases, police officials said. Killings, robberies, burglaries and car thefts were all down from a year ago, …
A group of rank-and-file lifeguards has filed charges against the longtime president of the lifeguard supervisors union and other union officers in the workers’ latest bid to curb the power of …
In late August, the state Department of Health delivered a staffing deficiency report to hospital administrators at Albany Medical Center, giving them 45 days to collaborate with nurses to come up …
A former city correction officer conspired to smuggle narcotics, chicken wings and other contraband into a Rikers Island jail in exchange for cash payments from inmates, federal authorities said. …
Laborers and ironworkers building a 266,000-square-foot studio space on Manhattan’s Far West Side are working in unsafe conditions, aren’t making a prevailing wage and don’t have union …
Four current and former employees at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling in alcohol, razor blades and other contraband into the …
College assistants, custodians and other non-pedagogical employees at the City University of New York are growing increasingly frustrated as they await agreed-to raises and retroactive payments more …
Roberta Gonzalez made $5,200 a year when she came to work for the city in 1973, as a clerk with what was then the Department of Health, Hospitals, and Sanitation. As the city’s fiscal picture grew …
Citing a “significant and continuing national-level safety risk,” federal transportation officials have directed transit agencies to assess how well their workers are protected against …
A federal judge has certified litigation brought by two dozen members of FDNY EMS and their unions as a class action discrimination suit covering all EMS workers, from EMTs to division commanders, …
FDNY officials’ September 2021 approval of a Turkish diplomatic building’s fire alarm and fire suppression systems sits center stage in the indictment of Mayor Eric Adams unsealed by federal …