To city municipal workers nursing a grievance, you can add department and agency managers. Without a raise since 2019, the city’s roughly 16,000 supervisors are looking for increases in …
For the second time in just over a year, city Comptroller Brad Lander has declined to register a contract for a controversial Medicare Advantage plan that would steer municipal city retirees into a …
Tiffany Munroe experienced the sort of workplace discrimination that is all-too-common for transgender people when she was fired from her warehouse job in 2020 after speaking out against the …
The city and the United Federation of Teachers have reached a tentative contract agreement giving educators at least 17.58 percent in compounded raises over the life of the 62-month deal and, for the …
Captive audience meetings, the mandatory sessions typically called by employers when workers are on the cusp of unionizing, would be forbidden, according to legislation passed by both houses of the …
Legislators in Albany passed the Clean Slate Act Friday, which will seal the criminal records of New Yorkers who have remained out of trouble since their convictions, providing them with a path to …
Firefighter Artur Podgorski, of Brooklyn's Ladder Company 108, was among eight FDNY firefighters honored at the department's Medal Day ceremony Wednesday for their actions, including a daring …
“We feel disrespected by the city because our loyalty is not rewarded with fair pay. [NYC Health + Hospitals] must do better,” Kristle Simms-Murphy, a registered nurse at Jacobi Hospital, said …
On Wednesday, smoke and soot from wildfires in Canada descended on New York, turning the city’s air quality into the worst of any metropolitan area in the world and pushing hundreds of thousands to …
Phil Martorana has spent 28 years handling packages inside of a UPS warehouse in Maspeth, Queens. During that time, he’s seen hundreds of coworkers come and go, UPS executive leadership change over …
EMS workers looking to take the promotional exam to become FDNY firefighters later this year are calling for the city to grant a one-time exception for those who have aged out of eligibility to join …
An FDNY radio mechanic who says he has been sexually assaulted, bullied and otherwise harassed and also frustrated by the failure of fire officials to follow up on his claims intends to sue the …
Vincent Alvarez will begin a fourth term as president of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, July 1. Any transition from June 30 will likely be seamless, even if the work — …
“Let’s get hired!” roared Mayor Eric Adams at the NYC Government Hiring Hall on May 20, 2023 at the Surrogate’s Courthouse at 31 Chambers Street in Brooklyn. Thousands of professionally …
The proposed elimination of nearly 500 vacant school crossing guard positions has been slammed as shortsighted and careless by District Council 37, elected officials and transportation safety …
To address a large number of vacancies and retention issues within the municipal workforce, members of the City Council recently are weighing proposed legislation that would require city agencies to …
A pilot program that will allow eligible city employees represented by District Council 37 to work from home up to two days a week launched Thursday, the union and Mayor Eric Adams announced. …
A group of retired municipal workers filed a class-action suit Wednesday to halt the city from imposing a single cost-free health care plan on retirees that they have long claimed is vastly inferior …
The 40,000 bus and subway workers represented by TWU Local 100 would receive what the union called “solid annual raises,” a full three months of paid maternity leave and annual cash bonuses, …
Nearly one in five farmworkers in New York State has lost work time as a result of being injured on the job, while nearly half of workers who were injured say they received no compensation for lost …
The Professional Staff Congress, which represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York, has sued the public-university system over what the union claims is CUNY’s “repeated …
Angelina Palafox has been working as a nail specialist for more than 20 years in various New York salons. At her most recent job, she was paid both in cash and by check. Palafox noticed, though, that …
Even as the city proceeds with a shift of its 250,000 municipal retirees to a private Medicare Advantage plan, scheduled for Sept. 1, former city workers continue to voice their opposition, if in …
Yolanda Johnson-Peterkin wanted to become a dental hygienist when she was growing up. “It was because I hated the dentist. I used to think the dental hygienists were cool because they would calm …
Hundreds of unionized construction workers rallied outside of the Fulton Street offices of Joy Construction Thursday to memorialize six laborers who they said have died on the firm’s work sites …
