Just in time for Christmas, New York legislators returned to the state capital Thursday to give themselves a nice holiday gift: a pay raise that would make them the nation's best-paid state lawmakers.
Employees at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in the Meatpacking District returned to work Dec. 12 following a 46-day strike that spawned when workers found mold in an ice machine and bedbugs in their …
A veteran FDNY firefighter who was critically injured Dec. 12 when he fell from inside his Crown Heights firehouse was taken off of life support on Monday. William P. Moon II was preparing for a …
Tony Utano, who had just graduated high school when he began his NYC Transit career as an electrical helper and started ascending through the ranks at Transport Workers Union of America Local 100 …
Home-health aides, advocate groups and elected officials last week kicked off a campaign demanding raises for home-care workers, who are among the lowest paid workers in the state. The state is …
Young workers in New York City — especially young men — are still struggling to recover from Covid-related job losses, according to a recent report from the state comptroller’s office.The …
Part-time faculty at the New School will vote this week on a new five-year contract that would raise the wages of the lowest paid professors by 155 percent over the course of the deal. Professors …
At a City Council hearing last week spotlighting recent outages in the FDNY’s dispatching system, union leaders turned the focus to the beleaguered workers tasked with taking calls and dispatching …
In an expected, but nonetheless significant outcome, an arbitrator has determined that the city must switch more than 250,000 retired municipal workers to a cost-saving, private-sector Medicare …
App-based restaurant delivery workers want a bigger piece of the profit pie. After the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection last month released a study calling for a $23.82 minimum hourly …
The former president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council and 10 other ex-union officials admitted in federal court to selling out their members in exchange for hefty bribes …
A federal judge’s order that the city must hire jail supervisors from outside Department of Correction ranks is shortsighted and unjust, union leaders said. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor …
Comptroller Brad Lander released a report last week reviewing, and critiquing, Mayor Eric Adams’ budget cut plans, which he argued could further emaciate the already depleted ranks of city civil …
Ahead of testimony from workers and organizers at a hearing of the City Council’s Committee on Civil Service and Labor last week , committee Chair Carmen De La Rosa said she wanted to find out how …
Federally employed firefighters, EMTs and others look likely to have access to long-sought health benefits by the end of the year. The Federal Firefighters Fairness Act, which would provide …
Six CUNY professors who resigned from the Professional Staff Congress after alleging that the union was agitating antisemitic sentiment had their First Amendment claims dismissed by a U.S. District …
More than 1,100 reporters, editors, designers, salespeople and security guards employed by The New York Times walked out on a 24-hour strike today after a last-minute push to reach agreement on a new …
When BNSF railroad conductor Justin Schaaf needed to take time off from work this summer, he had to make a choice: go to the dentist to get a cavity in his molar filled or attend a party for his …
The roughly 1,400 members of the New York State Supreme Court Officers Association have a new contract. The union’s membership last week ratified a five-year deal retroactive to 2021 bringing …
While Amazon CEO Andy Jassy spoke at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit last week, a few of his employees spoke out as well — by protesting outside the entrance to the event at Columbus …
More than 40 years ago, David Delancey made a grave mistake. It landed him a two-decade prison term, and “rightfully so,” Delancey said last week. “I was held accountable,” he …
A steady spike in heating outages at the city Housing Authority and slow progression towards replacing elevators indicated that while the agency has advanced in its reform efforts, much more work …
Apartment building owners and landlords throughout the city will soon have to post a new emergency preparedness bulletin released by the FDNY that, for the first time, includes warnings about the …
A new program will provide mental-health professionals loan repayment opportunities to help agencies statewide recruit and retain staff. The Community Mental Health Loan Repayment Program, …
Hours after Mayor Adams announced his plan to allow first responders to forcefully remove mentally ill New Yorkers so they could receive treatment, criticisms and concern began to flood in from …
