A group of marine diesel technicians and welders at the New York City Ferry voted unanimously to join the Transport Workers Union Thursday evening, marking the first time the storied transit union will represent workers on the city’s waterways....

New York City labor investigators have a new way to spot employers who may be illegally denying workers paid sick leave.  A report released August 6 by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Harvard Kennedy School...

Anthony Delgardio had been retired and earning accident disability pension benefits tied to his time as a school paraprofessional for over a decade when he got a phone call from the Teachers’ Retirement System June 8 informing him that his monthly payments would soon be cut in half...

The city and EmblemHealth will pay $53 million to 250,000 public-sector retirees enrolled in EmblemHealth’s GHI Senior Care plan who were charged $15 co-pays for medical visits and treatments between January 2022 and January 2023 under a...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's appointment of Jennifer Jones Austin as the new chair of New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board over the weekend drew a cautious response from the city's largest police union, which said the agency must undergo "fundamental change" after years...

New York City officials say a crackdown on deceptive tipping practices by food delivery platforms has generated an estimated $104 million in additional tips for app-based delivery workers since new regulations took effect earlier this year. Mayor...

New York Immigration Coalition management and the union seeking to represent dozens of workers at the immigration organization reached an agreement for voluntary recognition pending a third-party review of workers’ union authorization cards, both...

In April, Cai Qiong Liu went eight days without food, joining 14 other home healthcare workers in a hunger strike outside City Hall. The strikers were calling on City Council Speaker Julie Menin to bring to vote the No More 24 Act, which would ban 24-hour shifts for homecare workers and cap...

With less than two months before the first ballots for the midterm elections are sent out via the U.S Postal Service, union leaders in the service are working to dispel persistent accusations of mail-in ballot fraud propagated by...

Members of the New York City Deputy Sheriffs' Benevolent Association ratified a new 62-month labor agreement with the city featuring 18 percent raises over the lifetime of the deal, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday, ending a contract dispute that...

The Saturday July 18 rainstorm that flooded streets and ripped down tree branches required the response of a fleet city workers across agencies, but not included in their ranks were the dozens of tree climbers and pruners employed by the...

Workers at the largest chain of print newspapers in New York City voted to unionize with the Independent Association of Publishers' Employees on July 24, the new union announced shortly after votes...

More than 300 attorneys, social workers, investigators, advocates and administrative staff at The Bronx Defenders walked off the job Monday, becoming the third public defender union in New York City to strike this month as labor disputes continue...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed former First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris as president and chief executive officer of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and named former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to lead the...

The NewsGuild of New York has filed another unfair labor practice charge against Reuters, alleging that senior editors, including Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni, improperly performed work reserved for union represented journalists while...

Two powerful rideshare companies scored a win against the Taxi Workers Alliance Tuesday when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking a City Council bill that prevented apps from deactivating rideshare drivers from their platforms...

District Council 37 members and local leaders who say that union leadership has shut them out of ongoing negotiations with the city rallied just steps away from DC 37’s lower Manhattan headquarters at the same time bargaining took place for four...

Workers at the Movement Harlem climbing gym held a one-day strike protesting unfair labor practices in what the Workers United union claimed was the first-ever wall-to-wall strike at a North American climbing gym...

The city’s paraprofessionals will receive a one-time $10,000 non-pensionable bonus under legislation that passed the City Council last week in a unanimous vote. The “Respect Check” legislation is the culmination of years of advocacy by leadership...

Federal authorities searched the Queens home of former New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda last week as part of a criminal investigation examining his possible ties to one of the world's largest tobacco companies, prompting the union...

More than 500 unionized attorneys and legal staff at Brooklyn Defender Services, the city's second-largest public defender organization, walked off the job Thursday after marathon contract negotiations failed to produce a new labor agreement...

A former New York City correction officer was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months in federal prison after admitting he falsely claimed that he suffered injuries on the job to collect more than $370,000 in workers' compensation benefits, federal and...

Workers at New York Immigration Coalition who unionized last month say that management's bad-faith bargaining and attempts to carve over a dozen members out of the nascent union show that the immigrant rights organization is failing...

Crews continued working through the weekend to stabilize the Midtown office building where two structural columns buckled last week, as the city's Department of Buildings announced additional safety measures and reports emerged that city officials...

Members of the largest union of municipal workers have a new fixation. Workers who successfully pushed their union to endorse Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary last year are once again seeking to pressure union leaders; this time with...