District Council 37 has renewed its remote and flexible work pilot with the city for another year, extending a program covering more than 20,000 city workers that launched in June 2023. DC 37 executive director Henry Garrido announced the...
Timothy Brown, the man victim to the beating by two detectives in a Brooklyn liquor store two weeks ago, has taken steps toward filing a $100 million lawsuit against the city, the NYPD and the two detectives involved. Brown filed a notice of...
A former FDNY firefighter and decorated U.S. Army veteran who’s been denied a return to his old role in the department has asked a judge to immediately reinstate him as a fire marshal as part of a $2 million federal lawsuit filed against the FDNY...
For Yunfang Zhang, the hardest part of her eight day hunger strike was the cold. Even with handwarmers clutched in her hands and blankets piled on top of her, she said she never truly felt warm. Zhang was one of 15 home healthcare aides...
In the first installment of this interview, Stuart Schrader traced the rise of police unions and the consolidation of what he calls “blue power” over the 20th century. His book, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves,...
William Herbert, the executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College as well as a a distinguished lecturer and a faculty associate at the Roosevelt House...
FDNY EMTs, paramedics and fire protection inspectors elected Michael Greco as president of their union by a wide margin this month, choosing establishment leadership over an insurgent challenger. Greco, Local 2507’s current vice president,...
At a rally on the steps of City Hall on April 23, the Detectives’ Endowment Association as well as other union leaders and law enforcement advocates from across New York State gathered to push for legislation establishing a buffer zone around...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Friday that he would veto City Council bill criticized by numerous labor unions that would have tasked the NYPD with creating a plan to erect “security perimeters” around educational facilities across the city....
On April 21, the New York City Police Benevolent Association filed a federal lawsuit against the Civilian Complaint Review Board, alleging the agency improperly disclosed unsubstantiated misconduct allegations against NYPD officers, including...
Childcare providers across New York City say they’re drowning in unpaid bills and poor wages, even as Mayor Zohran Mamdani promises to dramatically expand the system they prop up. Providers say money rarely arrives on time and that structural with 3-K and pre-K will only worsen if a new 2-K program launches before they are addressed
A New York City Department of Correction captain and 10 correction officers have been indicted on corruption, grand larceny and related charges for allegedly falsifying time records and collecting nearly $229,000 for hours they did not work,...
A former New York City police sergeant can stay out of jail while he appeals his manslaughter conviction for tossing a picnic cooler at a fleeing suspect who then crashed his motorized scooter and died, a judge ruled Friday. The decision by a...
New York City labor is calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to tax the rich. Nearly a dozen unions signed a letter sent to Hochul this week urging her to get behind revenue-raising measures proposed in the one-house budgets of the State...
Under a tentative agreement announced April 17, around 34,000 building service workers in NYC will maintain their healthcare protections and receive a $4.50 raise over a four-year contract term. Days after a rally of over 10,000 workers with local...
Leaders of local community groups and unions representing education workers reiterated their call for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to veto a bill that critics warn would stifle free speech across the city. City Council bill 175-B that tasks the NYPD with...
Home care workers escalated their fight to end 24-hour shifts this week, launching a hunger strike outside City Hall on April 16 after the City Council failed to advance legislation that would overhaul one of the industry’s most contentious labor...
When a patient walks into a New York City hospital and speaks no English, or when a resident calls 911 in a language other than their own, it falls to a LanguageLine Solutions interpreter to bridge the gap. Many of these interpreters are now...
Calls for accountability over a violent arrest captured on video in Brooklyn are colliding with sharp pushback from police union leaders, as elected officials — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Member Oswald Feliz — denounce what they...
The city’s five pension funds will invest $4 billion in affordable housing and preservation over the next four years Comptroller Mark Levine announced Wednesday. The NYC Housing Investment Initiative seeks to finance new mixed-income, workforce...
The workers tasked with caring for some of New York's most vulnerable patients — nurses, emergency department staff and psychiatric providers — were left without adequate policies, training or resources to safely manage mental health crises,...
A years-long strategy by the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority to phase out the Superior Officers Benevolent Association — a unionized, civil-service-protected workforce — replacing it with non-union labor and alternative agencies, while...
The World Trade Center Health program’s understaffing has stalled grant funding, delayed program enrollment and halted the certifications of new conditions to be covered by the program the FDNY’s top doctor told The Chief in an interview earlier...
Local 1113 is the latest public-sector union in New York City whose members voted to pass a resolution calling for their pensions to be divested from Israeli stocks and bonds. The small union of around 725 investigators and finance employees...
On Thursday, April 9, a former NYPD sergeant was sentenced to at least three years in prison after killing a food delivery driver he struck with a cooler during a Bronx drug operation. The sentencing has drawn fierce criticism from the city's law...