The effort to block the MTA’s congestion pricing plan is gaining union support, with the Municipal Labor Committee having voted in favor of filing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit by the …
At times, LeNair Xavier, a staffer at The Pleasure Chest, has felt unsafe at work. “During my time at The Pleasure Chest, there have been instances in which both staffers and customers have been …
The city comptroller’s office is looking to recoup more than $32 million in wages from a Manhattan-based residential developer, alleging it chronically underpaid construction workers in violation …
The majority of jobs in the U.S.will soon be exposed to both the benefits and the perils of the emerging technology, according to a recent report by researchers at the International Monetary …
About 1,000 911 operators and their supervisors will be able to work three- or four-day weeks, fitting their scheduled hours into compressed workweeks as part of a one-year pilot program, according …
Condé Nast has laid off eight unionized employees at the music magazine Pitchfork and is considering firing another 100 unionized employees at several other publications owned by the global media …
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will formally propose an expansion to the department’s “fire brigades” standard, broadening it to cover a wider community of emergency …
The longtime president of a District Council 37 local representing thousands of city clerical workers has been expelled and ordered to reimburse the union more than $31,000 for using a car service to …
City employees represented by District Council 37 will be able to work a four-day week thanks to a pilot program instituted by the union and the Adams administration. The compressed workweek will …
Since last summer, the president of Local 2507 of District Council 37, Oren Barzilay, has been asking his parent union both in public calls in private communications to begin negotiations with the …
The restoration of a job training program and of funding for community schools by the Adams administration this week drew praise from two unions who had sued the city over the cuts. The unions, …
Joseph Zadroga, the father of an NYPD detective who died as a result of exposure to toxins at ground zero and who later advocated for a comprehensive law to provide health care for first responders, …
Raising the cap on the number of street vending permits in New York City would boost the city’s tax revenues by millions of dollars and improve the lives of thousands of street vendors, according …
The City University of New York has reached tentative contract agreements with three unions representing more than 10,000 non-pedagogical staff in the public university system. The tentative …
A federal appeals court has upheld a city law protecting fast-food workers from being fired without a legitimate reason. The Wrongful Discharge Law, enacted in 2021, bars fast-food chains with at …
The mob-connected president of a New Jersey-based non-union firm pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony corruption charge in connection with a bid-rigging and bribery scheme that landed the company …
Fewer cops either retired or quit the NYPD in 2023 compared with recent years, but the number of officer departures remained high at a time the department is already contending with its lowest …
The United Federation of Teachers, joined by Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, has filed suit to try and stop the MTA’s congestion pricing plan, which the union argues would impose a …
Governor Kathy Hochul wants to expand the state’s family-leave benefits by establishing paid prenatal leave, which would help expectant mothers access prenatal medical appointments throughout their …
Nearly 1,000 full-time non-tenure track New York University faculty members will vote in a union election later this year free from interference by university management, according to an agreement …
Felony assaults on police officers spiked in 2023, and union officials are blaming what they say are increasingly liberal criminal-justice laws. According to the NYPD, 2,235 officers were the …
More than 380 Starbucks locations and 9,000 employees across the country have unionized since a store in Buffalo became the coffee giant’s first branch to join Starbucks Workers United in December …
More than 70,000 New Yorkers employed in health care, entertainment, media, retail, legal, cultural, manufacturing and academic fields all walked out on strike in 2023, according to the city-based …
FDNY first responders are hammering the MTA’s congestion pricing plan, arguing that the $15 toll it will cost them to report to their stations and firehouses within Manhattan’s Central Business …
The number of local government employees in the state outside of New York City has fallen more than in the rest of the country, a report from the state comptroller’s office found. Between 2007 and …