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, …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A dean at a Queens public school was arrested Tuesday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old male student, the Queens District Attorney’s office announced. Melissa Rockensies, 33, formerly the dean of …

A man who allegedly stabbed a 25-year-old emergency medical technician in an ambulance last month was indicted on attempted murder and other charges Monday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office …

An Uber ride along the city’s streets and avenues will contribute that much less to climate change in the coming years if proposed rules by the Taxi and Limousine Commission are enacted. But the …

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 …