The Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have reached a tentative agreement with Verizon that would extend their current contract three years, to …
In a continuation of a years-long trend, paramedic response times increased during the first six months of 2022. Through June, paramedics reached scenes of the most serious incidents — known …
Starbucks announced it would close up to 16 stores, most on the West Coast, by the end of July for what the company said were safety concerns from employees. The stores slated for closure include six …
With coronavirus cases once again increasing citywide, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is urging the Adams administration to establish a hybrid work model for city employees.The city’s seven-day …
The owner of Sweet & Vicious, a Lower East Side bar that’s been serving liquor shots and classic cocktails until early mornings since 1998, has agreed to fork out $500,000 to 16 former …
“Women are terrified to request accommodations [on the job] like a seat or to be temporarily reassigned to a role supportive for a healthy pregnancy. This is no way to live,” said Odessa Fynn, a …
Amid stalled contract negotiations, union employees at HarperCollins Publishers will hold a one-day strike next week. Nearly all of the 250 union employees, who work in the editorial, sales, …
The number of educators dissatisfied with the profession has climbed significantly since the start of the pandemic, a July 11 report published by the American Federation of Teachers found.In a …
The first of what could be weeks of proceedings against Starbucks by the National Labor Relations Board took place Monday in Buffalo, where the unionization drive at the coffee chain began last …
President Joe Biden last week announced that he would work to prevent pension cuts to millions of union workers and restore benefits to thousands of others.Under Biden’s program, part of the …
When Daisy Chung began her work as director of the New York Nail Salon Coalition, she paid attention to the stories coming from workers, the vast majority of them women, nearly all foreign-born.
The city and District Council 37 have negotiated temporary pay raises and established an easier swim test to address severe staffing shortages at city beaches and pools.The starting pay for …
Killings and shootings were down for the first half of the year, but a particularly violent Fourth of July weekend and persistent increases in assaults and other crimes continued to cast a pall on …
An arbitrator determined that the city’s Department of Education did not have the right to place educators accused of submitting fake Covid-19 vaccination cards on unpaid leave without first allowing them to appeal, a finding the city then unsuccessfully appealed in state court.
A 28-year-old Queens man will spend decades in prison for his role in the February 2019 friendly-fire death of NYPD Detective Brian Simonsen. Queens Supreme Court justice today sentenced Jagger …
As many as one million people. That would be considered a pretty large labor pool for just about any industry, trade, business or corporation. But the prison population in the United States, …
Amid a significant wave of officer retirements and resignations — upward of 4,000 by the end of the year, according to the Police Benevolent Association — the NYPD graduated 561 recruits July 1 …
Inequality • At 300 top companies surveyed, the pay ratio between CEOs and workers jumped from from 604 to 1 in 2020 to 670 to 1 in 2021. • Of those firms, 49 have ratios above 1,000 …
Shefali Kashiv joined New York’s Microsoft office after graduating from John Hopkins University last August.
It takes two to tango, the saying goes. But with a collective bargaining agreement that expired Thursday, dancers at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater say management haven’t so much as …
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation June 30 granting Mayor Eric Adams control over city public schools for two more years — but the union representing teachers lamented that the governor …
The Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the NYPD’s Special Victims Division, the unit responsible for investigating sex crimes, which for years has been dogged by complaints from women’s …
Mary McLaughlin, who started working at the FDNY in 1984, retired as an administrative community relations specialist in September. But her exit from civil service didn’t last …
After years of in-house initiatives, as well as contentious legal action by Black firefighters, the FDNY looks to be more diverse than ever. Since 2019, people of color have made up between …
Workers in low-paying industries such as transportation, construction, retailing and nail salons who are classified as independent contractors in New York get paid 30 percent less than payroll …
