For nearly a decade, New York City’s Department of Sanitation has been working on overhauling the regulations governing how dozens of private sanitation companies collect the three million tons of …
“I’ve been in situations where I know if I had fewer patients, I might have been able to save a patient’s life. It is the worst feeling you can imagine,” Nancy Hagans, the president of …
The Adams administration has given no reason for its sudden cancellation of a class of 250 school safety agents, and the union that represents the agents blasted the city for failing to explain its …
The city’s sanitation workers union and the Adams administration have reached agreement on a five-year, two-month contract that, pending ratification by the rank and file, will bring the city’s …
The FDNY’s fire academy has changed a lot since the days when recruits would train in the backyard of a Midtown firehouse wearing no other gear than a wool tank top reading “probationary …
The pilot program allowing some city workers represented by District Council 37 to work remotely up to two days a week will be expanded to city managers and other non-unionized employees, according …
New Yorkers lose 117 hours on average each year because of traffic congestion, according to the MTA, setting them back $1,976 in lost productivity and other costs annualy. The city’s Central …
There were dozens of union members in the crowd of several thousand New Yorkers that gathered last Friday on the steps of the Main Branch of the New York Public Library’s on Fifth Avenue to call …
NYPD detectives have overwhelmingly ratified a five-year contract agreement with the city that secures a nearly 19-percent compounded pay raise through the life of the deal. The contract, …
An NYPD cop and her boyfriend were arrested Thursday on federal narcotics distribution charges and related conspiracy counts for selling more than a kilo of heroin and nearly a pound of fentanyl to a …
Postdoctoral workers at Columbia University, who have been bargaining for a contract with the Ivy League research university for nearly six months, have set a Nov. 1 strike date, their union …
The state is doubling down on a planned expansion of the renewable energy industry and an accompanying spike in jobs despite a decision by the state’s Public Service Commission to deny requests for …
Dozens of yellow cab, Lyft and Uber drivers queued up during a City Council committee hearing last week to implore city lawmakers for help in easing what for some are significant financial …
If you’ve been a regular at Rockaway’s beaches over the last several years, you may have been startled by the large crowd of beachgoers that gathered in the late afternoon of July 31 on the 106 …
Fix Tier 6. That’s the resounding message labor advocates and leaders of the state’s largest public-sector unions sent to state legislators during a Wednesday hearing on recruitment and retention …
New York’s labor movement joined together in remembrance at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Greenwich Village Wednesday for the dedication of a permanent memorial to the 146 …
“The average Council staffer works over 600 hours of unpaid overtime a year. That is absolutely wrong,” Daniel Kroop, president of the Association of Legislative Employees, said at an …
Staff at a popular chain of board game cafés in Manhattan said they are done playing games with management. After a nine-month organizing campaign, the workers at Hex & Company marched on their …
Yellow cab drivers fear that the imposition of congestion-pricing fees to the starting taxi fare could lead to the demise of their industry. Stung by the invasion of app-based for-hire vehicles …
Real estate developers would be required to pay prevailing wages to construction workers employed on city projects that have large public subsidies, according to legislation being pushed by members …
This story has been updated to include information on services and additional tributes. The former head of the Captains Endowment Association, Roy Richter, has died. Richter, who was 56, is …
When Franklyn “Bubba” Paige, the longtime president of District Council 37’s Lifeguards Local 461, was removed by its national union in 2020 for disenfranchising his members, rank and file …
The Sioni Group, the new owner of a 19-story Midtown office building, fired six longtime unionized cleaners without notice the same day the purchase was finalized in early September. The …
Like many who work a trade, Kyle Viverito sings on the job. You could say he has an electric voice. But that wouldn’t do him or it justice. Viverito, classically trained since he was in his …
From late winter to early spring, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes layover along Nebraska’s Central Platte River Valley on their journey to their northern nesting grounds. One vital …