Workers at Hachette's publishing divisions across the United States and Canada voted 388-130 July 7 to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild as the Hachette Workers Coalition. The bargaining unit, which includes roughly 600 employees, will now...

The first Black commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor and District Council 37’s executive director from 2002 to 2014 passed away July 9 from natural causes, her union announced last week.  A trailblazer, union activist and...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that New York City will waive civil service exam fees for high school students and first-time test takers, a move which the administration says aims to expand access to public-sector careers for hundreds of...

Just over a week after unanimously authorizing what would have been their first strike in nearly two decades, Broadway cleaners have reached a tentative four-year contract agreement with theater owners that delivers significant wage and pension...

The congestion pricing toll instituted in Manhattan below 60th street in January 2025 reduced FDNY ambulance response times in the city’s central business district by over a minute, a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research...

The Mamdani administration has secured more than $2.3 million in restitution for workers from four employers accused of violating New York City's worker protection laws, with more than 1,600 workers set to receive compensation, city officials...

Hours after Mayor Zohran Mamdani approved a budget keeping the NYPD’s authorized headcount at 35,000 officers, police leaders pointed to record-low crime statistics as evidence the force can continue policing effectively without adding hundreds of officers. The Police Benevolent Association, meanwhile, argued...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder likely causes 9/11 first responders and survivors to age faster, leaving sufferers prone to immune system lapses, chronic illnesses and organ deterioration, a study published last month by researchers at Stony Brook...

A measure to add a firefighter to 86 engine companies across the city backed by FDNY firefighter unions was left out of the city budget for Fiscal Year 2027 finalized this week. Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, slammed the lack of funding as an “abdication of leadership"...

As temperatures climbed toward triple digits across New York City this week, for members of Local 1010, the Laborers' union representing road builders and asphalt pavers, an 100 degree day means standing for hours on blacktop that radiates even...

The workers who clean Broadway's theaters before audiences fill the seats each night voted June 30 to authorize a strike, giving their bargaining committee the power to call the first work stoppage by Broadway cleaners in nearly two decades if...

The city will devote $34.2 million in the coming fiscal year to creating a public online portal to post documents related to post-9/11 air quality and health risks as part of the $125.8 billion Fiscal Year 2027 city budget announced June 30. Also...

Sergeants Benevolent Association president Vincent Vallelong and the union's executive board have been nominated without opposition to serve another four-year term, marking the second consecutive election cycle in which the incumbent leadership...

Historian Joshua Freeman has lived long enough to see threads of labor history develop before his own eyes. Just after finishing up his master's degree at Rutgers University, Freeman took part in celebrations for the United States' bicentennial in the summer of 1976. Now 50 years later, Freeman fears the country may be missing the mark with the celebrations for its 250th anniversary...

Every July 4, Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the defeat of monarchy and the birth of a new republic. But one of the most immediate and material catalysts for American rebellion was resistance to the far-reaching corporate power of the British East India Company.

The first American unions By the 1790s—just a few years after the Constitution was ratified—craft unions representing shoemakers, printers, carpenters, shipwrights, coopers, tailors and other skilled trades had formed in major port cities...

The city’s largest transit worker union paid its former president more than $220,000 in 2025 under a severance package implemented after he was ousted under a cloud of allegations that he that he pressured a female subordinate into having sex with him on several occasions and then...

The Mamdani administration is asking a federal court to block a delivery app from operating in New York City, alleging the company paid workers as little as $3.67 an hour in violation of the city's minimum wage laws. The filing marks the first time DCWP has sought a preliminary injunction to enforce New York City's delivery worker protections.

The Chief: You’ve come quite a long way from your time working at Taco Bell/ PIzza Hut Express and then trader joes this new job that barring anything drastic in november your setting yourself up for, I'm wondering if you have any immediate...

A violent uprising at the Horizon Juvenile Center in The Bronx June 21 left eight youth development specialists injured and has intensified calls from the union representing juvenile detention workers for an investigation into what it describes as a preventable breakdown in safety and security.

The Police Benevolent Association has asked the state Public Employment Relations Board to intervene in contract negotiations with the city after four bargaining sessions have yet to produce a wage proposal, setting the stage for what could become...

Tianpeng Zhang had been working for Fantuan in New York City, a Canadian food delivery app catered towards Chinese and Asian cuisine, for about a year when he started to notice his subpar working conditions.  In addition to having to take on...

More than two dozen editorial workers at several local news outlets in New York City and the surrounding area owned by Schneps Media have launched a union drive, calling for livable wages, affordable health care and stronger workplace and...

The owner of luxury clothing brand Salon 1884 was indicted June 17 by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for allegedly forcing employees to work long hours while stealing up to $54,000 of wages. Andrea Marshal, 44, has been charged with one...

The death of an 18-year-old tourist following a horse-drawn carriage accident in Central Park has intensified calls from animal welfare advocates to ban the industry, while the union representing carriage drivers says the tragedy underscores the...