The City Council has passed a series of bills aimed at addressing the pay disparity faced by women and people of color in the city workforce. A report released by the Council earlier this year found …

A bill supported by several large unions aimed at protecting warehouse workers passed the New York State legislature last week, a year after it was first introduced. The Warehouse Worker Injury …

Labor leaders were nearly unanimous in lauding Governor Kathy Hochul’s directive to “indefinitely pause” the MTA’s congestion pricing plan.  Designed to alleviate traffic bottlenecks …

It wasn’t until 1969 that attorneys in the Legal Aid Society, which has represented indigent New Yorkers since the 1870s, unionized, forming the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys. The members …

A bill that would grant full pension benefits to the families of New York City Transit Authority workers who work past retirement eligibility but die before retiring passed in both the Senate and the …

On an unusually warm afternoon in mid-February 2023, FDNY Lieutenant Mark Russo was at the scene of a raging house fire in Staten Island’s Arden Hill neighborhood when a mayday call came over …

The Civil Service Technical Guild’s May general membership meeting degenerated into a cacophonous argument when two rank-and-file members were muted and then kicked out from the virtual meeting …

Nurses at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai called on the health care system to settle a contract that provides them with pay equal to what nurses earned at other Sinai …

A new contract agreement with the two unions representing city lifeguards alters the requirements for New Yorkers seeking to become lifesavers in the city’s pools. The contract, negotiated over a …

The officers, represented by Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, sanctioned contracts tentatively agreed to in May with Security Contractors and the Realty Advisory Board on Labor …

Seven NYPD sergeant hopefuls were docked vacation days for participating in a cheating scheme during a 2022 promotion exam, according to a report by the city’s Department of Investigation that …

Just ahead of teens starting their summer jobs, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a set of protections meant to ensure that younger workers get a fair shake.  The Youth Workers Bill of Rights, …

The FDNY swore 32 firefighters into their new roles as lieutenants last week, all but ending a dispute the department and its members had with the city agency that administered the promotional exam …

Resident physicians in the city’s public hospital system have reached a tentative contract agreement with New York City Health + Hospitals that includes raises that total 22.6 percent over the span …

On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck's sensors spotted a trash can blocking one …

Junior psychology major Erin Green works part time at the children’s preschool at Sonoma State University, caring for university employees’ kids ages 1 to 5. Some of the non-student workers in …

A coalition of community groups and labor unions renewed its push on Thursday to get the city to invest $2.5 billion in two Department of Housing Preservation and Development programs in lawmakers' …

"Snap once if you’re ready!” called Diana Vargas, during a recent session of the Stacks+Joules workforce development technical class, held at the Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center on the Lower …

Lawmakers have reintroduced a City Council bill that would mandate real estate developers building affordable housing with city funding pay their workers a wage and benefits package of at least $40 …

“Two years is too long.” That’s the resounding message REI workers sent during a one-day unfair labor practice strike on Saturday to demand that the company settle a first contract by the end …

School cleaners and handypersons rallied Tuesday near City Hall for a contract that improves their pensions – and it won’t cost the city anything, according to their union Service Employees …

The FDNY’s understaffed Equal Employment Opportunity office started receiving help from the city’s Law Department in May after a federal judge ordered the department and city to find more lawyers …

Fast food workers in New York City currently have just-cause protections that shield them from being fired without reason. Now, members of the City Council want to pass legislation that would expand …

Growing up in the South Bronx, Nisa Rodriguez could easily have fallen victim to the perilous streets on which she was raised. She was constantly getting into fights, dropped out of school in the …

Some have called the Department of Sanitation the most important uniformed workforce in the city. Regardless, it’s easy to make the case that DSNY’s performance, whether good or bad, is evaluated …