FDNY fire protection inspectors have reached a $29.2 million settlement with the city as a result of a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit filed in 2020. According to the settlement’s terms, …
This story has been corrected to note that the city’s financial plan forecasts a budgeted officer headcount of 7,060, not 7,600. Insisting that the number of Department of Correction officers …
Members of United University Professions, the nation’s largest higher-education union, have overwhelmingly approved a four-year labor agreement with the state that will bring across-the-board …
In the last year, more than 100,000 asylum-seeking migrants have arrived in New York City looking for shelter, safety and family-sustaining jobs. But leaders of organizations supporting the asylum …
NYU Langone-Brooklyn has routinely broken safe-staffing laws, according to the union that represents the hospital’s nurses. Over the past year-and-a-half, the union, the United Federation of …
A federal appeals court has upheld a nearly $18 million jury verdict compensating more than 2,500 current and former FDNY EMTs for work that had gone unpaid. The EMTs, who filed suit in …
A man who allegedly stabbed a 25-year-old emergency medical technician in an ambulance last month was indicted on attempted murder and other charges Monday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office …
An Uber ride along the city’s streets and avenues will contribute that much less to climate change in the coming years if proposed rules by the Taxi and Limousine Commission are enacted. But the …
Panda Express, Au Bon Pain, and 7-Eleven's ‘Raise the Roost’ location in Greenwich Village will collectively have to pay $4.5 million in restitution to nearly 2,400 workers for violating New York …
A nail salon chain with 25 locations in the city will pay out $300,000 to more than 100 current and former employees after having paid them less than minimum wage and not compensating them for …
Postdoctoral workers at Mount Sinai have overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking, their union announced Monday. Of the 377 members of the Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW who cast votes …
An NYPD officer conspired for months with the leader of a violent Bronx gang with whom she had a romantic relationship, including by trying to help him evade a murder charge, federal officials said …
For a few years after joining the Professional Staff Congress in 2002, Martha Sanchez, a senior lab technician at Bronx Community College, applied for and received several professional development …
City motor vehicle operators bring hot meals and supplies to schools around the city and transport bodies to the morgue. They also shuttle correction officers and other jail staff from the parking …
School bus employees have voted to authorize a strike, which could potentially cause massive disruptions for tens of thousands of New York City public school students and their families at the start …
When 1,500 part time professors at the New School walked out on strike last fall , thousands of their undergraduate students showed their support and solidarity by walking the picket line and, as the …
The union representing 500 NJ Transit locomotive engineers is mailing out strike authorization ballots to its members this week, with the union’s president certain that after more than three years …
A Manhattan State Supreme Court justice has blocked the Adams administration’s plan to switch about 250,000 municipal retirees and their dependents into a cost-saving, for-profit health-care plan, …
The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development will designate 300 buildings to investigate in the next year to ensure that they have working self-closing doors, one outcome of the …
Edward D. Mullins, the strident former president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, was sentenced Aug. 3 to two years in prison for swindling hundreds of thousands dollars from the union he …
The strike by Hollywood actors and writers threatens to have significant ripple effects in New York City, where industry stages, sound studios and production lots have shut down, some having closed …
Acrimony tied to the longtime contract impasse between the union representing Staten Island Ferry workers and the city has spilled into public view. A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams last week …
Postdoctoral workers at Columbia University have started voting on whether to authorize a strike and Mount Sinai postdocs will hold a similar strike vote later this week. Members of the Columbia …
Dozens of employees at the New York City Housing Authority in four formerly non-union managerial positions are set to join District Council 37 later this year. But the 60 workers transitioning into …
The New York State Nurses Association has reached a tentative contract agreement with the city’s public-hospital system that would close the longstanding pay gap between public- and private-sector …