“All of this could end tomorrow. I just want to go back to throwing garbage in the rain,” said Daniel Hulkower, a former city sanitation worker who lost his job for refusing to get vaccinated …

With the city’s budget deadline looming, nearly two dozen state and federal lawmakers signed onto a letter urging Mayor Eric Adams to invest in programs that would make the city more affordable for …

The state agency tasked with administering labor law in the public sector has been pushing its city counterpart to alter a rule it applies to union members to make it easier for public employees to …

Among the various retail and service workplaces where employees have formed unions since 2021, Blank Street Coffee, the private equity-backed coffee chain that first opened in Brooklyn in 2020, is …

In a potentially significant setback for the Adams administration’s effort to switch municipal retirees to a cost-saving private health plan, the United Federation of Teachers has withdrawn its …

In June 1995, state lawmakers created a pension plan giving a sizable cohort of New York City municipal workers the opportunity to opt in to a 55/25 improved benefit retirement program. The plan …

I n a significant setback to the union’s leadership, f ormer educators with the Retiree Advocate caucus of the United Federation of Teachers have ousted the incumbent Unity slate.  In …

The union representing City Council staff has adopted resolutions calling on the New York City Employees’ Retirement System to divest from Israel and companies profiting from the war in the Gaza …

Leaders of the two FDNY EMS unions are set to meet with the city’s labor negotiators on Tuesday for their first scheduled bargaining session on a new contract. Bargaining has been delayed because …

The September 11 terror attacks continue to have severe implications for first responders and other workers and volunteers who toiled at ground zero and elsewhere following the collapse of the World …

A union representing transit workers has approved a new amendment to their constitution that would bar the union from bargaining away retirees’ traditional Medicare coverage. Members of the Transit …

They protect some of the nation’s most critical infrastructure, yet the 166 police officers who patrol the nearly 2,000 square miles that make up the New York City Water Supply System are among the …

The City Council has passed a series of bills aimed at addressing the pay disparity faced by women and people of color in the city workforce. A report released by the Council earlier this year found …

Labor leaders were nearly unanimous in lauding Governor Kathy Hochul’s directive to “indefinitely pause” the MTA’s congestion pricing plan.  Designed to alleviate traffic bottlenecks …

It wasn’t until 1969 that attorneys in the Legal Aid Society, which has represented indigent New Yorkers since the 1870s, unionized, forming the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys. The members …

A bill that would grant full pension benefits to the families of New York City Transit Authority workers who work past retirement eligibility but die before retiring passed in both the Senate and the …

On an unusually warm afternoon in mid-February 2023, FDNY Lieutenant Mark Russo was at the scene of a raging house fire in Staten Island’s Arden Hill neighborhood when a mayday call came over …

The Civil Service Technical Guild’s May general membership meeting degenerated into a cacophonous argument when two rank-and-file members were muted and then kicked out from the virtual meeting …

A new contract agreement with the two unions representing city lifeguards alters the requirements for New Yorkers seeking to become lifesavers in the city’s pools. The contract, negotiated over a …

Seven NYPD sergeant hopefuls were docked vacation days for participating in a cheating scheme during a 2022 promotion exam, according to a report by the city’s Department of Investigation that …

Just ahead of teens starting their summer jobs, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a set of protections meant to ensure that younger workers get a fair shake.  The Youth Workers Bill of Rights, …

The FDNY swore 32 firefighters into their new roles as lieutenants last week, all but ending a dispute the department and its members had with the city agency that administered the promotional exam …

Resident physicians in the city’s public hospital system have reached a tentative contract agreement with New York City Health + Hospitals that includes raises that total 22.6 percent over the span …

A coalition of community groups and labor unions renewed its push on Thursday to get the city to invest $2.5 billion in two Department of Housing Preservation and Development programs in lawmakers' …

School cleaners and handypersons rallied Tuesday near City Hall for a contract that improves their pensions – and it won’t cost the city anything, according to their union Service Employees …