Two FDNY EMTs seated in their ambulance at the scene of a medical emergency on Webster Avenue in the Bronx early in the morning of May 21 were nearly struck by a bullet that flew through the windshield of their ambulance...
It was nearly impossible to hear Margaret Glover’s speech over the cacophony of whistles, noise makers, shouting and chanting coming from the protesters behind and beside where she stood on the podium just outside the gates of City Hall. But for...
More than 100 New York Times employees walked out of the newspaper's midtown headquarters Wednesday to rally for a new contract, almost three months after their last one expired...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani – who built much of his political profile as a critic of the police – and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Wednesday that the NYPD will split the Bronx into two patrol borough commands and add nearly 200 officers to...
A Queens man on parole for a 1990 murder and attempted kidnapping case has been charged with assaulting a state parole officer after allegedly blowing a mixture of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine into her face during a parole violation arrest late...
Workers across the country are celebrating the 52nd annual EMS Week from May 17 to 23. In New York City, the Empire State Building was lit yellow, white and blue on May 17 to honor EMS workers. At the FDNY's EMS academy in Fort Toten, Queens the...
Under a City Council resolution passed last week, the Department of Education would mark May as Labor History Month in public schools across New York City. The month of May includes International Workers Day, known as May Day, celebrated every May...
The Long Island Rail Road strike entered its third day Monday, leaving roughly 300,000 commuters scrambling for alternate routes as negotiations between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and multiple rail unions remained...
Despite a policy instituted two years ago that seeks to hold private equity firms accountable for the union busting and anti-worker practices carried out by firms they invest in, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, stewarded by New York...
After former Mayor Eric Adams’ correction commissioner pushed out the Department of Correction’s former head of investigations, Sarena Townsend, four years later the city’s newly appointed federal remediation manager has selected her to help lead...
Under a deal on proposed changes to the Tier 6 pension plan for the upcoming Fiscal Year 2027New York State budget all workers under Tier 6 with 30 years' service would be able to retire at age 58, down from age 63, pension contribution rates for...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced this week that by securing state funding, instituting a new tax on second homes, delaying payments of the city’s pension obligations and pushing back a costly class size mandate he had successfully balanced the...
Negotiations between the state’s top lawmakers on reforms to the Tier 6 pension plan have narrowed to just three provisions as the finalized state budget for Fiscal Year 2027 draws closer, three state labor officials with knowledge of the...
The detectives’ union representing NYPD investigators traveled to Washington on May 12 to lobby Congress for legislation modeled after the proposed “HALO Act,” arguing local police officers should receive protections similar to those being...
George Gresham, the former president of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, passed away last week following a long illness, the union announced May 8. Gresham, 71, ran the largest healthcare union in the country, now numbering...
New York leaders announced new immigration enforcement restrictions Thursday as part of a tentative state budget agreement, advancing what would become some of the strongest limits in the country on cooperation between local authorities and U.S....
Days after news broke that former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was in critical condition suffering from pneumonia in a Florida hospital, his lawyer confirmed that Giuliani would seek to have his healthcare costs covered by the World Trade Center...
The NYPD announced this week that it reassigned a police captain to a lower-profile role after a video surfaced showing him disparaging Mayor Zohran Mamdani while on duty. In the video, Captain James Wilson can be heard saying of the mayor, “He’s nonsense. He’s temporary, he’s expendable. He’s not my boss,”...
New York City Comptroller Mark Levine announced that his office has recovered just over $1 million in unpaid wages, interest and penalties during the first four months of his term, citing five settled cases pursued by the Bureau of Labor Law....
A federal immigration enforcement operation at a Brooklyn hospital triggered a late-night confrontation involving hundreds of protesters, nine arrests and disputed accounts of whether the NYPD worked alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Professors at St. John's University have filed charges against the university administration with the state’s labor board in the wake of management unilaterally revoking its recognition of the union that’s been a presence on campus for over a...
Workers at Hachette Book Group, the third-largest trade publisher in the United States, have announced plans to unionize, marking what organizers describe as the largest union effort in the history of trade publishing. The newly formed Hachette...
Over 600 workers from New York City’s two largest prison re-entry organizations went public with their unionization Friday morning, just in time for the May Day marches. Staff at Fortune Society and the Osborne Association are calling for improved...
Dozens of New York’s Strongest gathered on the steps of City Hall Thursday afternoon to pressure state lawmakers, including Governor Kathy Hochul, to pass legislation that would improve the pensions of thousands of New York City sanitation...
