Nearly 150 NYPD officers committed misconduct, including using excessive force, while responding to the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd, according to a report released Monday by the …
The FDNY’s two top uniformed officials, Chief of Department John Hodgens and Chief of Fire Operations Joseph Esposito, have resigned their positions following the demotions late last week of three …
The City Council has passed a series of bills designed to close racial and gender wage gaps within the municipal workforce.The bills expand upon a 2018 law that mandates the city to publish municipal …
In an effort to rebuild a state public workforce significantly diminished by the pandemic, Governor Kathy Hochul last week unveiled an executive budget that dedicates nearly $19 million to …
After adamantly refusing to allow a telework policy for the city’s municipal workers, the Adams administration is now considering the option for District Council 37 members, according to a memo …
HarperCollins Publishers and the union representing some 200 striking employees have agreed to enter into federal mediation, the first sign of a possible settlement since the work stoppage began in …
Mayor Eric Adams is moving forward with a contentious proposal to shift responsibility for some fire inspections from the FDNY to the Department of Buildings despite protestations from union …
The city’s oft-stalled intention to switch roughly 250,000 retired municipal workers to a private Medicare provider from their traditional Medicare plan will go ahead without affording the retirees …
Jennyfer Almanzar, a 26-year-old bartender, makes about $45 a shift tending bar part-time in Harlem. Like most food and drink service workers, she relies on tips to make ends meet. Tips, though, have …
Some of the most exploited and abused members of the country’s workforce have long been forced into silence by immigration threats. A new initiative could encourage them to speak up.On Jan. 13, the …
Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have accused management of violating contract terms just weeks after the two sides reached the agreement by nearly doubling agreed-upon health care premiums …
Following 18 weeks of intense training on everything from fire suppression to building inspections, 288 FDNY probationary firefighters graduated from the fire academy on Friday.
Hundreds of union workers, organizers and activists from New York City converged on the state capitol Wednesday in support of legislation that would raise the minimum wage in New York City and its …
Corey Grable, a 30-year city cop and a union presence for two decades, said he is running to succeed Patrick J. Lynch, the longtime president of the Police Benevolent Association. In announcing …
When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail. It's a time he'd rather not talk about. Now, at …
Supporters of taxes on the very rich contend that people are emerging from the Covid pandemic with a bigger appetite for what they're calling "tax justice." Bills announced in New York, Connecticut, …
Nurses in the city’s public hospital system are ramping up their fight for a contract that improves staffing ratios and closes a wage gap between themselves and nurses working at private hospitals. …
When Tiffany Munroe started working in a New York City warehouse in late 2020, she thought she had finally found her first stable job since emigrating the year before from Guyana, where she had been …
First responders to the 9/11 attacks and survivors who have since developed uterine cancer are now eligible for free care under the World Trade Center Health Program. Eligible members of the program …
City employees who were terminated for refusing to get the Covid vaccine have filed a $250 million lawsuit seeking an end to the public-sector vaccine mandate as well as to be reinstated to their …
Ed Mullins, the firebrand former president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of wire fraud for fleecing more than a half-million dollars from the …
A kickback scheme orchestrated by a construction executive who manipulated bidding for jobs on upscale Manhattan projects netted more than $7 million for himself and others during an eight-year …
The city Department of Buildings is jeopardizing city residents' safety by condoning the installation of gas lines by unlicensed plumbers and other workers, a lawsuit by the plumbers union is …
Lucy Calderon was preparing for her family’s Christmas celebration Dec. 19 when she got notice that, effective immediately, she would no longer be employed at her $31-an-hour union job cleaning …
Mayor Eric Adams’ preliminary budget, released last week, reflects some tough choices. It includes funding cuts in early childhood education and for libraries, for CUNY and for city several …
