Amid efforts by the state to recruit terminated federal workers, city employees who were terminated for refusing to get the Covid vaccine called on the governor to reinstate them. In an open letter to Governor Kathy Hochul published Friday, New...
“We were here,” MTA bus operator Re’gan Weal told the Manhattan Borough Historian Robert Snyder in March 2023. “We were here risking our lives, our families, while everyone else was home. I would just like people to remember that we were...
A former Nassau County detective who carried out a sham police operation to shut down a mob-run gambling parlor on behalf of a rival Mafia crew has been convicted following a federal jury trial of lying to FBI agents. Hector Rosario,...
Workers at three Barnes & Noble locations in New York City have ratified a contract with the bookstore chain on Thursday that includes codified wage increases, union health care coverage and a host of new safety measures. With...
The dozens of Sesame Workshop employees who gathered in a small park near Lincoln Center Tuesday morning could hardly contain their excitement. Moments before the 10:30 gathering, 60 workers at the non-profit behind 'Sesame Street' had...
They snooze in parking garages, on side streets before the afternoon school run, in nap pods rented by the hour or stretched out in bed while working from home. People who make a habit of sleeping on the job comprise a secret society of sorts...
A wildcat strike by New York state prison guards stretched into a third week Monday, prompting officials to start firing workers for failing to abide by a deal to end the illegal labor action. The state's homeland security commissioner, Jackie...
A former superintendent at the city Housing Authority was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after she pled guilty to taking more than $50,000 in bribes in exchange for approving contracts over $500,000. Joy Harris,...
Amid a budget crunch at cultural institutions citywide, management at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced Friday afternoon that it would lay off 20 workers. The layoffs, which affect members of United Auto Workers Local 2110, come three...
James Tempro ran into the burning Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building before he was able to get water through his hose and onto the fire. During what would later be called one of the worst blazes of 1968, Tempro helped clear the home’s occupants...
Nurses at NYU Langone-Brooklyn have ratified a contract that provides 15.8 percent compounded raises and averts a strike that was set to start Saturday. The nurses, who submitted a strike notice to NYU Langone-Brooklyn’s management on Feb. 18,...
Postdoctoral workers at Weill Cornell Medicine, who have been in negotiations for their first contract for nearly a year, demanded that the institution settle a contract that provides protections for immigrant workers and parents. The...
At times, the focus at the District Council 37 mayoral forum on Tuesday was more on the candidates not in the room than the six answering questions on stage. Mayor Eric Adams had been expected to attend – which would have been his first time at a...
With wildcat strikes by state prison correctional officers ongoing at prisons statewide this week, officials engaged in discussions with the union representing the COs Monday regarding a number of demands officers want met to quell what they say...
New York City was still climbing out of the Great Recession when the Resorts World casino opened in Jamaica, Queens, in 2011. Rich Maroko, the president of the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, remembers tens of thousands of desperate candidates...
President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce have gutted the ranks of wildland firefighters and support personnel, fire professionals warn, leaving communities to face deadly consequences when big blazes arrive this...
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with DoorDash Monday that will see the company pay nearly $17 million to delivery workers in New York City. James’ office found that the company engaged in deceptive pay practices...
Thousands of workers will receive $2.6 million in restitution after five large employers, including Starbucks, were found to have violated the city’s paid sick and fair workweek laws, in addition to other labor law violations, the Adams...
A staffing company that failed to pay prevailing wages must pay more than $644,000 to dozens of clerical employees who worked at several medical facilities across the city, according to a settlement announced by the City Comptroller’s...
John Chiarello, who was reelected TWU Local 100’s secretary-treasurer in December, will fill out the rest of Richard Davis’ term as head of the city’s largest transport workers’ union. Chiarello, 58, a signal maintainer by trade, was...
Nurses at NYU Langone-Brooklyn seeking a new contract agreement submitted a 10-day strike notice to the hospital’s management Tuesday night, according to their union. The pact covering 1,000 nurses at the hospital is set to expire Feb. 28. The...
Governor Kathy Hochul said she would deploy National Guard troops to restore and ensure order in at least two dozen state prisons where correction officers have been engaged in unsanctioned — and illegal — work stoppages and walkouts since earlier...
A year ago, FDNY Firefighter John Gayson began making plans to achieve an ambitious personal goal: to earn a coveted “360” sticker from the New York State Canal Corporation by kayaking the Erie Canalway from Buffalo to...
The Trump administration began firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National...
Home healthcare nurses at CenterLight Healthcare are ramping up their contract campaign, starting a petition and launching an ad campaign to demand the non-profit settle a fair agreement and cease any cuts to the nurses’ healthcare. The 70...
