Lawmakers have reintroduced a City Council bill that would mandate real estate developers building affordable housing with city funding pay their workers a wage and benefits package of at least $40 …

“Two years is too long.” That’s the resounding message REI workers sent during a one-day unfair labor practice strike on Saturday to demand that the company settle a first contract by the end …

The FDNY’s understaffed Equal Employment Opportunity office started receiving help from the city’s Law Department in May after a federal judge ordered the department and city to find more lawyers …

Fast food workers in New York City currently have just-cause protections that shield them from being fired without reason. Now, members of the City Council want to pass legislation that would expand …

Growing up in the South Bronx, Nisa Rodriguez could easily have fallen victim to the perilous streets on which she was raised. She was constantly getting into fights, dropped out of school in the …

City retirees secured yet another court victory in their bid to keep their traditional Medicare and no-cost supplemental coverage.  In a unanimous decision issued Tuesday, a State Supreme Court …

Build it and they will come … work.  In a bid to attract municipal employees, the city comptroller and a former director of policy for Governor Kathy Hochul have proposed launching a program …

The FDNY’s annual weeklong celebration of its 4,400 EMS members began May 16 with the unveiling of the official EMS Week poster, a yearly tradition to highlight the work of the department’s EMTs, …

The city’s public hospital system has hired more than 1,000 nurses over the last eight months as part of its goal to reduce its reliance on temporary nurses.  The number of full- and part-time …

The FDNY formally launched its firefighter recruitment campaign last week, announcing the slogan “all heroes welcome” in anticipation of the first open competitive exam for firefighters …

Staff at one of the state's largest and most powerful unions say that local leadership has been attempting to stifle their push to unionize by distributing anti-union mailers urging staff to vote no …

Democratic politician, civil rights champion and social agitator Paul O’Dwyer — with his white pompadour, thick eyebrows, and soft Irish brogue — became a well-known New York civil rights …

As evidence mounted that an increasing number of workers who labored on the World Trade Center site following the September 11 terror attacks had been afflicted by toxic dust and were growing …

For six years, with every new version of a state bill that would grant them three-quarter disability pension benefits, a few dozen now retired New York City Transit workers who worked on the World …

Two public defenders at the Legal Aid Society are suing the organization, a lawyers union and New York City, claiming that paying private union dues breaches their First Amendment rights.  The …

Sunny day: Sesame Workshop writers have ratified a five-year contract that includes “monumental” protections that grant the writers jurisdiction over new media programs, protections against …

On Thursday, after 11 weeks on strike, a group of unionized workers at the nonprofit legal services firm Mobilization for Justice picketing outside of their Manhattan headquarters held a vote.  …

As part of the budget cuts imposed by Mayor Eric Adams in the last two years, the FDNY has trimmed its overtime spending, instituted a partial hiring freeze and, most drastically, terminated …

Two educators said they were fired or forced to resign from the city public school system after they were doxxed for expressing views that were in support of Palestine. James Parra, who worked as a …

Warehouse workers nationwide would no longer have to meet speed quotas and employers would have to establish national ergonomic standards, according to legislation introduced by Congressional …

Pregnant bus operators suing New York City Transit for allegedly failing to provide them with reasonable accommodations urged the authority to address the issue. During a MTA board meeting Tuesday, …

A former Brewster cop has been sentenced to three years in prison for protecting members of two Queens-based prostitution businesses from law enforcement in exchange for sex, which he occasionally …

James Mager was a born and bred New Yorker. The youngest of six children, raised in the Bronx, he followed in the steps of his father, an FDNY lieutenant, and joined the department in his late …

Amid a changing of the guard in the top leadership of the United Auto Workers last spring, several dozen staff organizers formed an independent staff union hoping to secure a collective bargaining …

Nail salon workers are more likely to experience reproductive health issues and pregnancy complications, a recent report from the New York Healthy Nail Salons Coalition found. A survey of more than …