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Sanit exam helped boost number of civil service applications

The number of prospective city employees who applied to take civil-service exams in Fiscal Year 2022 more than doubled compared to the previous year, according to the Mayor’s Management Report.The …

Unions call on Adams to lift vax mandates for city workers

The city’s private businesses will no longer have to require their employees to be vaccinated against Covid, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday, a pronouncement seized on by the heads of several …

Sleeping on the job, because he had to

When the alarm rang, Grant Billingsley lifted his head from between his hands, pushed himself up from the cold floor tiles and returned to his desk. Waking up in the second-floor bathroom stall of …

Cabán to introduce “Universal Just Cause” legislation

Council Member Tiffany Cabán plans to introduce “Universal Just Cause” legislation that would protect workers, regardless of union status, from egregious at-will firings. The measure would …

Workers say Chipotle settlement did not stop labor law violations

Despite the city’s recent $20 million settlement with Chipotle Mexican Grill for violating workers’ rights to stable schedules under the Fair Workweek Law, the burrito chain has continued unfair …

FDNY unions sound alarm on looming budget cuts

FDNY union leadership are uneasy about Mayor Adams’ recently announced directive compelling city agencies to cut their budgets by 8 percent within two years. Oren Barzilay, the president of …

For unionizing workers, customer support is key

“It definitely is a frustrating aspect of our jobs — that Starbucks is marketing themselves as being an ethical company while we’re being pretty ruthlessly exploited,” said Jacob Welsh, a …

Farmworkers could get OT after 40 hours — starting in 10 years

Farmworkers in New York State will have their overtime thresholds incrementally reduced from 60 hours to 40 hours over a decade should Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon sign off on recommendations …

Union workers rally in support of Fed cafeteria employees

Food service workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 100 rallied outside of the Federal Reserve building in lower Manhattan last week in support of cafeteria workers inside who have been working on …

City Council will have key say on Medicare plan

The Adams administration has enlisted the City Council in its so-far frustrated bid to switch retirees to a cost-saving Medicare Advantage plan. 

Hundreds of tech workers alongside pro-Palestinian activists assembled outside Google’s Chelsea offices Sept. 8, chanting “No justice, no peace, tech workers are in the streets!” and holding up …

Former city workers want end to vax mandate

“This was not just a job, this was my lifelong career,” said Bernadette Mejia, a former firefighter who left her job at the FDNY after she chose not to get vaccinated against coronavirus.Dozens …

Adams: City departments must cut budgets

Mayor Eric Adams has ordered city agencies to slash their budgets by nearly 8 percent over the next two years — three days after the City Council held a hearing about the city’s difficulties …

On the march Labor Day

New York City hosted the country's first major Labor Day parade 140 years ago, and the tradition continued over the weekend, with U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh serving as grand marshal. …

Nespoli gets 5th term as Sanitation's union leader

Harry Nespoli, the president of Teamsters Local 831, the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association, and his slate will embark on a fifth five-year term. Nespoli and his colleagues faced no opposition …

A bill making its way through the City Council has split the ranks of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, with union officials criticizing the legislation and rank-and-file …

Terror attacks reverberate as U.S. marks 21st anniversary

Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with tear-choked tributes and pleas to "never forget," 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. The loss still felt immediate to Bonita Mentis, who …

Schools adding 850 safety agents

Mayor Eric Adams and the city schools chancellor announced plans to train 650 school safety agents throughout the coming school year — and a possible pathway for safety agents and other civilian …

CUNY wants to re-enroll New Yorkers in college

After nine years of college studies, Tom Reingold found the rigors of coursework too difficult and dropped out of Hunter College in 1987 without receiving a degree.  He went on to work in …

Historical novel brings Sept. 11 and its aftermath into focus

Even 21 years after the Twin Towers collapsed, 9/11 remains a raw memory for Joe Calderone. Calderone, at the time an investigative editor at the Daily News, got to ground zero a day after the …

Catsimatidis-owned firm must offer to rehire workers

Workers at a John Catsimatidis-owned oil company who were fired after they went on strike last year must be offered their jobs back, according to a settlement between the firm and the National Labor …

TWU opposes bill that would ban Central Park horse carriages

Martin Vazquez, 39, held out his hand out for his wife Sofia, 37, as she stepped out of a pedicab on Central Park South on Labor Day. The married couple of eight years consciously chose for their …

We’re number one. Amid a recent wave of organizing campaigns across the country, New York City had the highest rate of newly-unionized private-sector workers, according to a recent report.Between …

Former NYPD cop sentenced to 10 years for Jan. 6 assault

A former NYPD cop was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison for striking a Washington, D.C., police officer with a flagpole during the violent Jan. 6 takeover of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of …

After 4 decades on The Job, detective bids adieu to NYPD

Much has changed since Frank Ciccone joined the ranks of what was then the New York City Housing Authority Police Department. Call them the bad old days. Despite recent headlines suggesting …

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