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Judge halts city’s planned Medicare switch for municipal retirees

A Manhattan State Supreme Court justice has blocked the Adams administration’s plan to switch about 250,000 municipal retirees and their dependents into a cost-saving, for-profit health-care plan, …

Security chief under de Blasio admits obstructing investigation

The former head of security for then-Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded guilty Wednesday to repeatedly hindering a Department of Investigation probe into de Blasio’s misuse of his security detail and was …

City inspections will spotlight self-closing doors

The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development will designate 300 buildings to investigate in the next year to ensure that they have working self-closing doors, one outcome of the …

Mullins, ex-SBA president, gets 2-year prison term for defrauding union

Edward D. Mullins, the strident former president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, was sentenced Aug. 3 to two years in prison for swindling hundreds of thousands dollars from the union he …

Hollywood’s impasse spotlights NYC’s role in film and TV

The strike by Hollywood actors and writers threatens to have significant ripple effects in New York City, where industry stages, sound studios and production lots have shut down, some having closed …

FDNY EMT arrested after failing 'integrity test'

An FDNY EMT suspected of having previously stolen from patients was arrested on grand larceny and other charges, accused of stealing $600 from an undercover investigator posing as a sick patient …

Judge pauses MTA plan to remove elevator operators

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has for now stopped the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from unilaterally removing elevator operators from five deep subway stations in Washington Heights. The …

S.I. Ferry union, city bicker as contract stalemate persists

Acrimony tied to the longtime contract impasse between the union representing Staten Island Ferry workers and the city has spilled into public view. A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams last week …

Postdocs at Columbia and Mount Sinai voting on whether to strike

Postdoctoral workers at Columbia University have started voting on whether to authorize a strike and Mount Sinai postdocs will hold a similar strike vote later this week. Members of the Columbia …

NYCHA workers get union status, but lose remote-work option

Dozens of employees at the New York City Housing Authority in four formerly non-union managerial positions are set to join District Council 37 later this year. But the 60 workers transitioning into …

New deal would win public-sector nurses pay parity

The New York State Nurses Association has reached a tentative contract agreement with the city’s public-hospital system that would close the longstanding pay gap between public- and private-sector …

PBA's Hendry looks to boost cops’ quality of life

Patrick Hendry doesn’t want to settle for the status quo. The 30-year NYPD cop and the newly installed president of the Police Benevolent Association wants more for his members because, Hendry said …

Local 372 must re-run election

The largest local within District Council 37 has been ordered to re-run its election due to concerns the city’s poor air quality hampered turnout for the in-person contest. The American Federation …

PEF members approve 3-year deal

Rank and file employees of the Public Employees Federation have approved a contract that brings raises of 3 percent in each of the deal’s three years as well as a lump-sum payment of $3,000.  …

In a New York City first, a union slice

Workers at Barboncino in Crown Heights have been serving up wood-fired pizzas and Italian-American classics for more than a decade in a brick-lined dining room off Franklin Avenue. Since May, …

FDNY to distribute commemorative Covid-service breast bars

The FDNY will be presenting Covid-service breast bars or lapel pins to every member of the department, both uniformed and civilian, who worked from March 1, 2020, to May 31, 2022.  FDNY …

Each time this century that the Teamsters reached tentative agreements with UPS on a nationwide contract, Eugene Braswell, like most members of Local 804 in Queens, didn’t hesitate before voting …

DOT highway repairers sue city for OT pay

Hundreds of city Department of Transportation have filed a federal lawsuit over unpaid overtime. The highway repairers and assistant city highway repairers allege that the city has routinely not paid …

10 years since bankruptcy, Detroit fires again but city workers and retirees feel burned

Mike Berent has spent more than 27 years rushing into burning houses in Detroit, pulling people to safety and ensuring his fellow firefighters get out alive. But as the 52-year-old Detroit Fire …

Two juvenile detention staffers charged in assault on teen

Two supervisors at Horizon Juvenile Detention Center have been charged with federal civil rights offenses after they allegedly attacked a 16-year-old detainee and tried to cover up the assault, …

Man convicted in 1988 killing of NYPD officer will be released

NYPD unions are railing against the scheduled release next month of one of the men convicted of gunning down NYPD Officer Edward Byrne as he sat in his patrol car in Jamaica, Queens, in February …

Youth work program has few good opportunities, report finds

The city’s Summer Youth Employment Program should be doing more to connect young New Yorkers with jobs in high-paying and growing industries such as the tech sector, a recent report from the Center …

TWU unions issue Metro-North strike threat

Tens of thousands of people who commute into New York City each day might have to find another way to travel this fall.  Unions representing about 600 Metro-North Railroad mechanics and …

527 new cops boost NYPD’s ranks

The NYPD welcomed 527 new police officers to its ranks Tuesday following their graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden and six months of training at the police academy in Queens. In …

Former federal CO gets 43 months for MCC smuggling scheme

A former Bureau of Prisons correctional officer will do 43 months behind bars after admitting to  smuggling oxycodone, marijuana, cellphones, cigarettes, alcohol and other substances into the …

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