Panda Express, Au Bon Pain, and 7-Eleven's ‘Raise the Roost’ location in Greenwich Village will collectively have to pay $4.5 million in restitution to nearly 2,400 workers for violating New York …
A nail salon chain with 25 locations in the city will pay out $300,000 to more than 100 current and former employees after having paid them less than minimum wage and not compensating them for …
Alison Colby has worked in publishing and production for more than 30 years. In early 2020, she started work as production editor for Scholastic Corp’s children’s magazines, a position unionized …
Postdoctoral workers at Mount Sinai have overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking, their union announced Monday. Of the 377 members of the Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW who cast votes …
An NYPD officer conspired for months with the leader of a violent Bronx gang with whom she had a romantic relationship, including by trying to help him evade a murder charge, federal officials said …
For a few years after joining the Professional Staff Congress in 2002, Martha Sanchez, a senior lab technician at Bronx Community College, applied for and received several professional development …
City motor vehicle operators bring hot meals and supplies to schools around the city and transport bodies to the morgue. They also shuttle correction officers and other jail staff from the parking …
After fears of a “she-cession” during the pandemic, women have returned to the workforce at unprecedented rates. Much of the gain reflects a boom in jobs traditionally held by women, including …
A Department of Sanitation gig remains one of the most coveted in city civil service. More than 50,000 paid $61 to take the sanitation worker exam starting last September. Ultimately, just under …
School bus employees have voted to authorize a strike, which could potentially cause massive disruptions for tens of thousands of New York City public school students and their families at the start …
When 1,500 part time professors at the New School walked out on strike last fall , thousands of their undergraduate students showed their support and solidarity by walking the picket line and, as the …
The union representing 500 NJ Transit locomotive engineers is mailing out strike authorization ballots to its members this week, with the union’s president certain that after more than three years …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …