Unions representing teachers, school safety agents and other school staff are weighing in on a plan to ban cellphones in schools, with most appearing in favor.   In a New York Times op-ed …

Despite being eligible to telework several days a week under a remote work pilot program, 150 workers at the Police Pension Fund are still required to work in the office five days a week.  Tens …

A shortage of city medical examiners has prompted the union representing the forensic pathologists to urge the mayor and labor commissioner to settle a contract and provide more funding to the Office …

With the World Trade Center Health Program once again facing a funding shortfall that could oblige it to turn away would-be enrollees within a few years, a bipartisan group of Congress members are …

The worst part of working at the combination Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Express was pumping hot water through the nacho cheese dispenser at closing.  Mistreatment from customers, the constant …

Officer attrition at the NYPD, although still above pre-pandemic norms, eased somewhat in the first half of the year.  Through the end of June, 1,119 officers had retired and 395 had resigned, …

The gender pay gap across New York City has changed little over the last two decades, which can largely be attributed to women earning less than men within the same field, even in occupations that …

It's music to their ears. The pension plan for nearly 50,000 musicians who work in television, film and on Broadway will receive a $1.5 billion investment to save the pension from insolvency. The …

For several weeks earlier this year, Maria Reyes, a recent arrival from Ecuador, installed, repaired and finished drywall at a 23-story residential project under construction on West 96th Street on …

Regulations proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration would strap volunteer departments with exorbitant costs and make it difficult for them to continue operating, an advocate …

There was one cop missing from Monday’s NYPD police academy graduation ceremony. But Police Officer Edgar Ordonez was there in spirit, and he will likely remain in the hearts and minds of the 626 …

Computer systems managers who have worked for the City University of New York for more than a decade say morale has taken a hit over the lack of raises and pay inequities they say they have faced for …

Benny Boscio Jr., the resolute head of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, will continue as union president, having defeated two upstart challengers for the post.  In a referendum …

FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, whose tenure at the helm of the nation’s largest fire department has been beset by discord with chiefs under her command, announced on Saturday that she will …

Nearly 11 months after negotiations began, resident physicians at Montefiore Medical Center are demanding that the hospital’s management settle a fair contract. Members of SEIU’s Committee of …

Since securing a first-in-the-nation minimum wage late last year, app-based restaurant delivery workers in New York City are making more money and spending less time idling between orders. That’s …

Workers at The Bronx Defenders say they’ll be walking out on strike the morning of July 22 if they’re unable to reach a deal with management within the next two weeks. The attorneys, paralegals, …

Scott Munro, the new head of the Detective Endowment Association, is unbowed before the challenges facing his union.  Top of the to-do pile for the 32-year NYPD cop, who ascended to the …

A coalition of more than two dozen state and local government agencies, among them the State Attorney General’s Office and the City Comptroller’s Office, are urging the U.S. Department of …

Paul DiGiacomo’s NYPD career spanned high-crime epochs, the crack scourge, the 9/11 terror attacks, Covid and also numerous successes, challenges and tragedies that a decades-long tenure on the job …

Teachers at a Long Island City charter school are alleging that school’s officials are stalling negotiations but are holding out hope to settle a first contract before the start of the school …

The state Department of Labor has recovered more than $63 million in stolen wages in the two years since the agency heightened efforts to combat wage theft, the governor’s office announced Monday. …

FDNY firefighters who took the 2022 lieutenant’s exam remain puzzled and frustrated as to why a curve was applied to test results even as the department has started promoting from the resulting …

New Jersey Transit engineers are one step closer to walking out on strike after the National Mediation Board concluded more than four years of bargaining between the engineers’ union and the …

At the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Greenwich Village, along the brick and terra-cotta facade of the neo-Renaissance building there, a stainless steel band soars to the …