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 …
How do blades get in? The same way drugs, phones and weapons infiltrate — visitors, incoming inmates and friendly guards. Gangs often emerge as the governance inside.Rats, mice and roaches infest …
Thirty city public school employees accused last spring of submitting fraudulent Covid vaccine cards received return-to-service letters Jan. 11 after a state Supreme Court judge ordered that they …
Hundreds of workers and organizers have launched an effort to expand New York’s unemployment insurance benefits to cover the hundreds of thousands of workers currently excluded from federal …
Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center and Mount Sinai Hospital ended a three-day strike Thursday morning after reaching tentative contract agreements that include 19-percent raises and provisions to …
Killings and shootings dropped considerably citywide in 2022, even as overall major crime climbed 22 percent compared with a year earlier. The increases stemmed from spikes in grand larcenies and …
More than 7,000 nurses at two New York City hospitals were in the third day of a strike Wednesday with no breakthrough yet on the nurses’ demands for better pay and increased staffing.Although the …
Retired municipal workers will be deprived of choice if the City Council doesn’t sanction a change to the administrative code that allows the city to charge the retirees for a portion of their …
The leaders of powerful unions, a slew of state senators and progressive justice advocates have united in opposition to Governor Kathy Hochul’s choice for chief judge, Justice Hector LaSalle, …
The City Council will weigh legislation that would require city agencies to conduct exit interviews with retiring and resigning municipal employees. As the city faces a vacancy rate that has …
Unions representing New York’s uniformed emergency medical technicians, paramedics and EMS officers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the city and the FDNY alleging “discriminatory …
Hennessy, pulse-pounding tunes and lap dances. All are prevalent in the city’s gentlemen’s clubs. Until a few weeks ago, they were also part of evenings and nights inside a UPS Customer …
The clock is ticking.About 10,000 private-sector nurses are set to strike Jan. 9 if they do not settle contract agreements that include significant raises and safe-staffing policies.Although the New …
Following a year during which officers retired or resigned in greater numbers than at any time in 20 years, the NYPD's uniformed ranks are their lowest in more than a decade.The officer headcount as …
The head of the union that represents agency lawyers applauded the city’s decision to officially lift residency requirements for city attorneys, but questioned why the attorney-at-law title was not …
After months of inaction and despite pronounced opposition from retired municipal workers, the City Council appears poised to consider changing the city’s administrative code to permit the …
A possible strike by thousands of New York City nurses loomed even as nurses at one hospital reached a tentative agreement hours before their contract was set to expire.The pact affecting 4,000 …
The head of the Westchester County Correction Officers' Benevolent Association has denounced Governor Kathy Hochul’s veto of a bill that would have granted lump-sum benefits to the families of county jail staff who work past retirement eligibility but die before retiring.
Workers at HarperCollins Publishers entered 2023 still on strike, more than 40 days after about 250 employees at the publishing giant walked out when contract negotiations broke down in …
Unionized health-care workers earn a higher average weekly salary and are more likely to have health-care and retirement benefits than non-unionized health-care staff, a recent study found. The …
Family, friends and fellow firefighters assembled in St. Patrick’s R.C. Church in Bay Shore, Long Island, Thursday to bid their final goodbyes to FDNY Firefighter William P. Moon II, remembering …
Municipal retirees battling the city’s proposed shift to a private Medicare plan for its 250,000 retired workers have a prominent ally in the City Council. In a lengthy note she appended to a …
The City Council has released a long-awaited report to its staffers on the body’s Equal Employment Opportunity policies that include recommendations on how the Council can better combat harassment …
