Employer contributions to the state’s public pension system will increase starting next fiscal year. So of course will taxpayers’ obligations. State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli earlier …
Following revelations that Dr. Jay Varma, the city’s Covid czar during the de Blasio administration, attended sex parties during the height of the pandemic, members of the City Council called on …
A city Sanitation Department worker was killed Saturday evening when he slipped from the garbage truck in which he was riding and was run over by the vehicle's wheels. Richard Errico, 54, a 19-year …
Building cleaners and their union, 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, are continuing their fight against a cleaning contractor they say has undermined labor standards by cutting the …
Trader Joe’s managers and supervisors violated labor law in the lead up to last year’s union election at the supermarket chain’s downtown location, the National Labor Relations Board's …
Even as he contends with investigations, legal challenges and top-level staff departures, Mayor Eric Adams’ road to re-election is looking increasingly bumpy, with the number of challengers for the …
The head of the NYPD sergeants’ union says the city’s latest contract offer is significantly unfair given that its pay scale in many cases provides newly promoted sergeants a lower salary than …
A shortage of inspectors has resulted in a 17-percent drop in the number of restaurants inspected over the last fiscal year, according to the recently published Mayor’s Management Report. During …
The union representing about 260 workers and the National Audubon Society have reached a tentative contract agreement, averting a planned employee walkout that had been scheduled for three days last …
Two former FDNY chiefs were arrested Monday on charges that they solicited nearly $200,000 dollars in bribes between 2021 and 2023 in exchange for providing building owners and property developers …
Federal labor law is the groundwork that guarantees workers will get a fair shake in the workplace, and it’s that foundation that has guided Jennifer Abruzzo during her tenure as the National Labor …
First responders suffering from illnesses related to the September 11th terrorist attacks could finally learn what the city knew about the toxic cloud that lingered above ground zero for months after …
A former city Department of Education official was sentenced to two years in prison following his conviction on corruption and bribery charges for trading payments from a food vendor in return for …
As designers debuted their spring-summer 2025 collections on the runways during New York Fashion Week, a recently published report found that the city’s fashion industry has lost about 30 percent …
Dozens of former city Department of Environmental Police Division officers are being denied back pay because they left the agency before the ratification of a lengthy retroactive contract between …
Staff organizers in the United Auto Workers have filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union after it declined to renew the employment of one outspoken organizer. The UAW Region 9A …
Overall crime citywide declined for the eighth straight month in August, with killings and shootings in particular decreasing significantly compared to a year earlier, according to the NYPD. …
Auto manufacturers will no longer be able to unilaterally set pay rates for mechanics repairing cars covered by a warranty, according to legislation signed by Governor Kathy Hochul this week. …
Amazon, Panda Express, Chipotle, Uber and Lyft are among businesses with the worst record of labor law violations in the city, according to an “Employer Wall of Shame” unveiled Labor Day by City …
Forty years ago, John J. Murphy joined the family trade. Initiated into membership of what was then Local 2 of the United Association, Murphy was following a path trod by his great-grandfather, …
In an uncontested delegate election last month, Lee Saunders and Elissa McBride, the president and secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, …
City probation officers have overwhelmingly approved a contract with pay increases that conform to the civilian pattern but also includes considerable back payments and lump-sum ratification …
In April, a month before UPS eliminated the overnight sorting shift at its massive hub in Maspeth, Queens, around 120 full-time warehouse workers were given a choice: they could take on fewer hours …
The surge of union organizing that started during the Covid pandemic hasn’t stopped — and those efforts have been mostly successful, according to a recent report by CUNY’s School of Labor and …
There is no time on the political calendar when organized labor’s benediction is more sought out than when the presidential race enters its homestretch. With just …