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Shootings decline citywide, but remain high

Shootings and killings continued to decline citywide, despite a particularly violent Memorial Day weekend and a continued increase in overall crime, police said. 

CUNY union sues over vaccine mandate

The Professional Staff Congress filed a lawsuit May 31 in Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that the city public-university system’s Covid vaccine mandate does not apply to thousands of employees. …

‘Carlos’ Law’ approved by lawmakers

After spending years in legislative limbo, a bill that would significantly increase fines issued to construction companies found criminally liable for worker injuries or fatalities was passed by the Legislature last week.

Adams convenes gun violence task force

With the nation yet to come to terms with massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde, clusters of gun violence in the city threatening epidemic proportions, and Congress held hostage by the gun lobby, Mayor …

Telework option for city workers is 'remote,' mayor says

The head of the largest union representing city workers called on the city to negotiate a telework policy after the Adams administration doubled down on the importance of municipal employees working in person.

Human services workers demand raises

With negotiations on a post-pandemic city budget coming to a close, nearly 1,000 human services workers flooded City Hall last week with one laser-focused message for Mayor Eric Adams: just pay. For …

Street vendors want more support, fewer fines

After a year of deliberations and pandemic-related setbacks, the city’s Street Vendor Advisory Board released a report last week outlining the state of street vending that includes a flurry of …

Chipotle employees rally for pay worth more than beans

“Chipotle is raising the cost of its burritos but won’t raise the wages of its employees? That just doesn’t make sense to me,” Ed Dealecio, an employee of the fast-casual restaurant chain …

Workers at MTA division await contract

Workers in the MTA’s Career and Salary Division have been without a contract for three years, and one employee publicly berated the authority for unnecessarily delaying concluding negotiations on a …

At ‘Test Kitchen,' unionization is on the front burner

Workers at one of the nation’s most popular TV cooking shows are looking for more recognition. In recent weeks, about 150 cooks, writers, editors, videographers, web developers, shoppers, …

Mayor calls on parents to help keep weapons out of schools

Following the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and concerns about the growing number of weapons in city public schools, Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David …

7,000 city workers await vax decisions

Nearly 7,000 city employees who sought exemptions from vaccine mandates on religious or medical grounds, most of them police officers, are either awaiting decisions on their appeals or haven’t yet …

Nail salon workers seek hands-on approach for better pay

Menuka Simkhada, a Nepali nail technician who has worked on the job for six years, is struggling to raise two children on an hourly salary that is below the city’s minimum wage.Although lawmakers a …

Trader Joe’s workers in western Massachusetts ring union bell

In the 1960s, Joe Coulombe had a novel idea.     To distinguish his new Pasadena, California, grocery store from others, he would pay his workers a higher wage and provide them with …

The World Trade Center Health Program is considering adding uterine cancer as a 9/11-related health condition, more than two years after the program rejected the illness as a covered condition.

Council passes fire-safety legislation

In the aftermath of January’s Twin Parks Bronx fire that claimed the lives of 17 residents, eight of them children, the City Council passed a series of bills last week to address faulty …

Nurses want protections against mandatory overtime

Working any job for 24 hours straight is physically and mentally draining. But for nurses, it’s a common occurrence — and it can be outright dangerous.“Imagine after you finish working your …

Court says city’s diaphragm compression law is constitutional

City police officers are once again prohibited from using certain types of restraints when making arrests. 

In Harlem, mixed sentiments for a mega development

On the steps of City Hall last week, nearly three dozen union members and representatives from 32BJ SEIU and Local Laborers 79 chanted "Build it now!" for the City Council to approve upzoning to to accommodate a massive redevelopment project in West Harlem.

Long-sought legislation by federal firefighters and their advocates that would provide added access to benefits following injuries or illness appears headed for Congressional passage.

It is a village for the dead. But Green-Wood Cemetery is also an open-air museum.  The National Historic Landmark, spread over 478 acres, in west Brooklyn features Victorian-era monuments.

Mulgrew re-elected president of the UFT

Michael Mulgrew handily won re-election to a fifth term as United Federation of Teachers president, outpolling Camille Eterno of the United for Change slate.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority failed to report more than 200 assaults against workers in recent years, according to the state Department of Labor.

Double trouble: number of weapons found in schools surges

The number of weapons recovered in schools so far this school year has more than doubled compared to last school year, according to NYPD officials. There have been 4,728 knives, metal knuckles …

Adams wants ATF to yank ghost-gun kit maker's license

Mayor Eric Adams has called on the Biden administration to yank the federal firearms license of a Nevada company that sells parts and kits for ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have …

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