The FDNY has 483 unfilled firefighter positions and is down more than 30 percent of its dispatchers, leaving the department short-staffed just as the New York’s Bravest are responding to increasing …
Following a number of fires caused by exploding lithium-ion batteries that power the increasingly ubiquitous e-bikes and scooters, Mayor Eric Adams signed five bills this week tightening regulations …
Calling the right to strike a crucial mechanism for securing fair contracts, the Transport Workers Union of America and TWU Local 100 have enlisted lawmakers in a bid to amend state law and …
Amid a recent wave of violence near schools, the city Independent Budget Office found that the number of school safety agents has dropped 24 percent since the start of the pandemic. There were about …
New York has made progress towards closing the gender pay gap but still has work to do, a report from the governor’s office released on Equal Pay Day indicated.The state’s gender pay gap for …
A proposed minimum wage for app-based delivery workers is on hold. The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection earlier this month announced that it would delay instituting a minimum pay rate …
Residential building service workers in the Bronx reached a tentative contract agreement March 14 on the eve of their contract's expiration, their union 32BJ announced, averting a possible strike. …
A city Department of Correction captain has been convicted by a State Supreme Court jury of criminally negligent homicide in connection with the hanging death of an inmate at the Manhattan Detention …
The state and city university systems are facing “desperate financial conditions” and need additional funding for operating expenses, better faculty-to-student ratios and other proposals in the …
Most mornings, Steve Franey arrives at the UPS fulfillment center in the Suffolk County hamlet of Farmingville at 3:30 a.m. for the start of his eight-hour shift. His workdays are typically split …
Three former Rikers Island correction officers who collected paychecks while feigning illness or injury to stay off the job while the island penal compound plunged into chaos have pleaded guilty to …
A coalition of labor advocates, elected officials and workers rallied in Albany on International Women’s Day to demand state legislators pass a series of bills that would especially help low-income …
A former NYPD police officer has been convicted of numerous charges in connection with the violent Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach carried out by supporters of then-President Donald …
About 500 food service workers in cafeterias at the Federal Reserve of New York, Bloomberg Media, BNP Paribas bank, Benjamin Moore and five other locations in New York and New Jersey have voted to …
The city’s long-stalled, contentious effort to switch municipal retirees to a Medicare Advantage plan cleared a significant hurdle Thursday when the agreement was overwhelmingly endorsed by a vote …
On Sunday morning, FDNY firefighters responded to yet another fire caused by an exploded lithium-ion battery, the 31 st so far this year. The five-alarm fire started, video released by the FDNY …
The man held responsible for the brutal incident that killed Emergency Medical Technician Yadira Arroyo six years ago was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday following a nearly monthlong jury …
The city’s public hospital nurses, who are seeking a contract that will provide salaries equal to their private-sector counterparts, are hoping to enforce a clause from a previous agreement to …
As part of its previous contract, the Professional Staff Congress was able to raise the minimum pay for adjuncts at the City University of New York to $5,500 per course. With that 2019 labor …
More than a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across France on Tuesday, in a new round of protests and strikes against the government's plan to raise the retirement age to 64. Unions …
Insisting that their labor is no less legitimate or indispensable than that of other professions, a coalition of sex workers have joined with lawmakers to push for legislation that would …
Since the city’s vaccine mandate was lifted last month, some municipal workers who were terminated for declining to comply with the directive say that officials have been slow to provide clarity …
Four FDNY paramedics and EMTs who sued the department and the city after they were punished by the department for speaking out about the conditions they faced in the early weeks of the pandemic each …
Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD officials are hopeful that a pattern emerging over the last few months is an indication that violent crime is ebbing after a sustained increase in shootings and homicides …
More than 150 NYU professors gathered near Washington Square Park last week for the second time in as many weeks to announce that they’ve asked NYU leadership to voluntarily recognize their union …
