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Former NYPD commissioner Howard Safir dies

Howard Safir, the former NYPD commissioner whose four-year tenure in the late 1990s included sharp declines in the city's murder tolls but also some of its most notorious episodes of police killings …

NYC pension funds sue Fox over 2020 election coverage

New York City's pension funds and the state of Oregon sued Fox Corporation on Tuesday, alleging the company harmed investors by allowing Fox News to broadcast falsehoods about the 2020 election that …

Workers in New York can no longer be disciplined for declining to attend so-called “captive audience” meetings, according to legislation signed by Kathy Hochul Wednesday.  The governor also …

New York City and the country marked 9/11 with tributes and tears

On a drizzly, overcast morning Monday, New Yorkers at ground zero in lower Manhattan recalled that crisp, clear late-summer morning 22 years ago with tolling bell, a moment of silence and quiet …

Union leaders say proposed budget cuts would inch the city toward crisis

Fearful that residents will be deprived of crucial city services, leaders of municipal unions are calling on Mayor Eric Adams to dial back his call for across-the-board budget cuts he said were an …

9/11 Tribute Museum gets another showing

It’s been just over a year since the 9/11 Tribute Museum in lower Manhattan permanently closed its doors after 16 years of educating visitors from around the world and providing walking tours of …

State working to address teacher shortage

It's not just students dropping out: schools across the state are facing challenges attracting and retaining teachers. “Too often, when I look around in my school building during my lunch breaks, …

After 13 years, a contract for S.I. Ferry mariners

A 13-year wait for Staten Island Ferry workers is over.  The union representing the roughly 120 mariners and the Adams administration carved out an unprecedented 16-year contract, the first such …

Retirees rip unions' Medicare claims

City retirees have won in court. They now want the City Council to back them in their bid to keep their existing health benefits.  The organization driving the resistance to the Adams …

NYPD agrees to reform protest tactics in settlement over 2020 response

New York City's police department has agreed to adopt new policies intended to safeguard the rights of protesters as part of a legal settlement stemming from its response to the Black Lives Matter …

Young, educated workers driving labor movement, report finds

The establishment of unions at Starbucks locations, Amazon warehouses and Trader Joe’s grocery stores has drawn national attention in recent months. But quietly, recent unionization efforts among …

LES Trader Joe’s workers could still unionize

Workers at the Trader Joe’s on the Lower East Side who lost their bid to unionize following a tie vote in April are vying for a second chance to bargain collectively under a new standard handed …

Labor Day's organizing roots are especially strong this year

Labor Day is here, along with the big sales and barbecues that come with it. But the activist roots of the holiday are especially visible this year as unions challenge how workers are treated — …

Local 372 challenger objects to low number of voting sites

A candidate challenging the incumbent president of District Council 37’s Local 372 has raised concerns that the imminent rerun of the local’s officer election will have too few voting sites. On …

Art/Work

Life begins with labor, and it remains a constant. Without work in all its forms, with all its travails and triumphs, there is no existence. Artists know this and always have. Their profession, now …

FDNY inspectors score $29M settlement with city

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, …

Correction unions push back on call for less Rikers staff

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 …

Feds: Former New Jersey CO bilked cops, firefighters and others

A former New Jersey corrections officer conned police officers, firefighters, EMTs and other first responders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a corrupt cryptocurrency scheme he parlayed …

Unions back Hochul's push for work authorizations

Unions across the city and state are supporting Governor Kathy Hochul’s push for the Biden administration to expedite work authorizations for asylum seekers. In order to help the more than 100,000 …

UUP members overwhelmingly ratify 4-year agreement

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 …

Workers exposed to extreme heat lack consistent protection

Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun …

Labor market conspiring against asylum seekers, advocates say

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 …

Federal appeals court affirms $18 million payout to FDNY EMS

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 …

FDNY mechanic fears continued harassment from supervisor

Ruben Estevez, an FDNY radio technician who claimed he has been bullied, harassed and assaulted by the vice president of his union, is still working in the same office as the union official, months …

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