The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is alleging that an anti-union consultant hired by Amazon threatened and berated a delivery driver who is active in the unionization effort at a Queens facility last week. Following the incident, workers...
Midwives at two hospitals in the Bronx are seeking a contract that will grant them with pay comparable to their counterparts working at other hospitals across the city. The contract for midwives working at two NYC Health + Hospitals facilities,...
Two candidates running for president in District Council 37 Local 1549’s election will face each other in a runoff contest after none of the competitors earned a majority of votes – and a competitor in the race for secretary-treasurer has filed a...
Service technicians at a Mercedes Benz dealership on Manhattan’s far west side rallied with union allies on Monday to put pressure on the dealership’s owner to agree to a first collective bargaining agreement. Workers at Mercedez Benz of Manhattan...
Henry Garrido was elected to his fourth, three-year term as District Council 37 executive director last week by the union’s delegate members. The largest public employee union in New York City, DC 37 represents 150,000 workers in the public and...
Workers pushing for an end to smoking in Atlantic City casinos say the main employee union has been won over by tobacco companies seeking allies in the fight against smoking restrictions. An official of a union involved in the anti-smoking push...
Leadership at the United Auto Workers acclimated to dealing with obstinate managers at the negotiating table now find themselves the target of unionized workers’ ire as the UAW has failed to reach a deal with UAW Staff United, the independent...
Following a state Supreme Court judge’s ruling that the state Department of Labor should not have closed hundreds of home health workers’ wage theft cases, elected officials are demanding that the investigations be reopened. State law allows...
Sparkle Lee, a professional boxing referee and former NYPD police officer, is too modest to think of herself as a trailblazer, but her many accomplishments speak for themselves. Lee began her officiating career in the amateurs in the 1980s,...
Legislation named for a late NYPD detective that is intended to crack down on cellphone thefts is now on the state’s books. The law, which requires wireless service providers to disable services to stolen phones, is named for Detective...
A federal judge has found New York City in contempt over conditions in Rikers Island’s jails, saying that violence inside has only gotten worse since a 2015 consent decree and the subsequent appointment of a federal monitor. The written...
A second former superintendent at the city Housing Authority was convicted of bribery and extortion for taking money in exchange for approving contracts as part of the 70-person takedown conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice. Hector Colon,...
Workers at the Strand bookstore are threatening to strike just before the shop's holiday season spike. Members of United Auto Workers Local 2179 held a strike authorization vote last week and 92 percent of the members who voted decided to...
In August, a month after New York City’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year was finalized, parks workers and advocates warned that cuts to the Parks Department budget would leave the city’s beloved natural areas and parks unmanaged, unpruned and...
Hundreds of workers who deep cleaned and disinfected subway cars during the early months of the pandemic are entitled to prevailing wages, with two contractors who hired them potentially responsible for more $2 million in back pay and penalties,...
The heads of the NYPD’s police unions welcomed the appointment of Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, with several noting her familiarity with the department and her willingness to sit down with labor. Tisch, the Department of...
Celestina Leon, the district manager at Brooklyn’s Community Board 4 and recent winner of the Sloan Public Service Award, sought to become a writer but was having a hard time finding a job in publishing after graduating from college. “I wasn’t...
A former NYPD officer was convicted today of sexually assaulting two boys, aged 15 and 12, and of related offenses involving two others, following a five-day jury trial in Brooklyn federal court. Christopher Terranova, 34, of Staten...
The union representing workers at the Daily News has filed another unfair labor practice charge against the hedge fund that owns the 105-year-old newspaper, accusing Alden Global Capital of bad faith bargaining and unilaterally changing working...
The city’s public school system is short more than 2,200 paraprofessionals, special education teachers and other staff who work with students with disabilities, the United Federation of Teachers found in a recent survey. The union, which in...
From New York City's Strongest to its Finest. In a widely anticipated move, Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner. Tisch, the Department of Sanitation’s commissioner since April 2022, becomes the fourth person to head the...
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan last Friday sided with the state of...
A bill which closes a loophole that reduces the Social Security benefits public sector retirees with pension plans can reap after retirement passed the U.S House of Representatives this week in a bipartisan vote. H.R. 82, The Social Security...
Despite reduced tolls tied to the MTA’s congestion pricing plan approved Monday, staunch opposition to the toll endures in some quarters. At least nine lawsuits challenging aspects of the plan remain active, and opponents will be hopeful to delay...
Congestion pricing is back on the map. And while the toll plan’s foremost purpose is to reduce traffic bottlenecks in Manhattan’s central business district, the money raised from the tolls is dedicated to funding MTA capital work, much of which...
