Among the various retail and service workplaces where employees have formed unions since 2021, Blank Street Coffee, the private equity-backed coffee chain that first opened in Brooklyn in 2020, is …
In a potentially significant setback for the Adams administration’s effort to switch municipal retirees to a cost-saving private health plan, the United Federation of Teachers has withdrawn its …
Nearly 2,800 New York City Health + Hospitals doctors are seeking a contract that will provide salaries that allow the public hospital system to retain physicians. Doctors, their union, the Service …
In June 1995, state lawmakers created a pension plan giving a sizable cohort of New York City municipal workers the opportunity to opt in to a 55/25 improved benefit retirement program. The plan …
School cleaners and handypersons with Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ have ratified a contract agreement that will provide them with a 10-percent pension boost, their first …
I n a significant setback to the union’s leadership, f ormer educators with the Retiree Advocate caucus of the United Federation of Teachers have ousted the incumbent Unity slate. In …
The union representing City Council staff has adopted resolutions calling on the New York City Employees’ Retirement System to divest from Israel and companies profiting from the war in the Gaza …
Leaders of the two FDNY EMS unions are set to meet with the city’s labor negotiators on Tuesday for their first scheduled bargaining session on a new contract. Bargaining has been delayed because …
The September 11 terror attacks continue to have severe implications for first responders and other workers and volunteers who toiled at ground zero and elsewhere following the collapse of the World …
A union representing transit workers has approved a new amendment to their constitution that would bar the union from bargaining away retirees’ traditional Medicare coverage. Members of the Transit …
Wendy Remy has worked as a paralegal at the Legal Aid Society for more than 50 years, serving clients throughout the city and also working one or two jobs on the side to supplement her income. As she …
They protect some of the nation’s most critical infrastructure, yet the 166 police officers who patrol the nearly 2,000 square miles that make up the New York City Water Supply System are among the …
What’s hot this summer? Raffia bags, ballet flats — and fair working conditions. State legislators last week passed the Fashion Workers Act, which would grant many protections for the first time …
The City Council has passed a series of bills aimed at addressing the pay disparity faced by women and people of color in the city workforce. A report released by the Council earlier this year found …
A bill supported by several large unions aimed at protecting warehouse workers passed the New York State legislature last week, a year after it was first introduced. The Warehouse Worker Injury …
Labor leaders were nearly unanimous in lauding Governor Kathy Hochul’s directive to “indefinitely pause” the MTA’s congestion pricing plan. Designed to alleviate traffic bottlenecks …
It wasn’t until 1969 that attorneys in the Legal Aid Society, which has represented indigent New Yorkers since the 1870s, unionized, forming the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys. The members …
A bill that would grant full pension benefits to the families of New York City Transit Authority workers who work past retirement eligibility but die before retiring passed in both the Senate and the …
On an unusually warm afternoon in mid-February 2023, FDNY Lieutenant Mark Russo was at the scene of a raging house fire in Staten Island’s Arden Hill neighborhood when a mayday call came over …
The Civil Service Technical Guild’s May general membership meeting degenerated into a cacophonous argument when two rank-and-file members were muted and then kicked out from the virtual meeting …
Nurses at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai called on the health care system to settle a contract that provides them with pay equal to what nurses earned at other Sinai …
A new contract agreement with the two unions representing city lifeguards alters the requirements for New Yorkers seeking to become lifesavers in the city’s pools. The contract, negotiated over a …
The officers, represented by Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, sanctioned contracts tentatively agreed to in May with Security Contractors and the Realty Advisory Board on Labor …
Seven NYPD sergeant hopefuls were docked vacation days for participating in a cheating scheme during a 2022 promotion exam, according to a report by the city’s Department of Investigation that …
Just ahead of teens starting their summer jobs, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a set of protections meant to ensure that younger workers get a fair shake. The Youth Workers Bill of Rights, …