City Council members slammed an order issued last week by the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget for agencies to slash their budgets.Agencies must reduce their spending by 4 percent annually …
A John Catsimatidis-owned heating oil company continues to play hardball with the union representing its delivery drivers, refusing to sign a statewide master labor contract, according to the head of …
Following a nearly six-year impasse with city labor officials, the Police Benevolent Association and the Adams administration have hammered out an agreement that will significantly bridge the salary …
Despite the city’s recently signed agreement with managed-care company Aetna, retired municipal workers are vowing a fight to keep their current and preferred coverage. Hundreds of retirees …
The chair of the City Council’s Oversight and Investigations Committee has called on city administrators to loosen restrictions that hamper agencies from filling vacancies, mandates she said had …
UPS must hand over contact details for more than 10,000 seasonal employees to allow a Teamsters local to investigate suspicions that the shipping giant shorted the workers on pay during the 2021-22 …
District Council 37 members have overwhelmingly ratified a contract that includes 16.21 percent compounded raises across the life of the five-year deal, the first labor agreement concluded by the …
Fire protection inspectors have been at the forefront of the FDNY’s growing battle against fires caused by lithium-ion batteries by responding to calls for potential violations of the fire code, …
The city’s effort to switch its municipal retirees from a traditional, government-run Medicare program to a privately administered Medicare Advantage plan, underway for years, has been beset by …
Outside the David Geffen Hall on Sunday, orchestra musicians who typically perform inside Lincoln Center’s hallowed halls staged an impromptu concert — for a first contract. The freelance …
At a February ceremony inside Queens Borough Hall, Firefighter Regina Wilson once again took the reins of the Vulcan Society, the 83-year-old fraternal order of Black firefighters, which she led …
Nurses and their unions are urging the city and state to increase investments in hospitals to help correct a persistent staffing crisis.The New York State Nurses Association demonstrated last week in …
Contrary to city officials’ contentions, giving municipal retirees the option to keep their preferred, premium-free health-care benefits would yield substantial cost-savings for the city, a policy …
Most had come from Romania, Russia, Austria or Italy. Some had been in New York only a few months, even weeks. All toiled inside one of the city’s most notorious sweatshops, on the top three floors …
Calling the right to strike a crucial mechanism for securing fair contracts, the Transport Workers Union of America and TWU Local 100 have enlisted lawmakers in a bid to amend state law and …
Amid a recent wave of violence near schools, the city Independent Budget Office found that the number of school safety agents has dropped 24 percent since the start of the pandemic. There were about …
New York has made progress towards closing the gender pay gap but still has work to do, a report from the governor’s office released on Equal Pay Day indicated.The state’s gender pay gap for …
The state and city university systems are facing “desperate financial conditions” and need additional funding for operating expenses, better faculty-to-student ratios and other proposals in the …
Most mornings, Steve Franey arrives at the UPS fulfillment center in the Suffolk County hamlet of Farmingville at 3:30 a.m. for the start of his eight-hour shift. His workdays are typically split …
Three former Rikers Island correction officers who collected paychecks while feigning illness or injury to stay off the job while the island penal compound plunged into chaos have pleaded guilty to …
A coalition of labor advocates, elected officials and workers rallied in Albany on International Women’s Day to demand state legislators pass a series of bills that would especially help low-income …
About 500 food service workers in cafeterias at the Federal Reserve of New York, Bloomberg Media, BNP Paribas bank, Benjamin Moore and five other locations in New York and New Jersey have voted to …
The city’s long-stalled, contentious effort to switch municipal retirees to a Medicare Advantage plan cleared a significant hurdle Thursday when the agreement was overwhelmingly endorsed by a vote …
On Sunday morning, FDNY firefighters responded to yet another fire caused by an exploded lithium-ion battery, the 31 st so far this year. The five-alarm fire started, video released by the FDNY …
The city’s public hospital nurses, who are seeking a contract that will provide salaries equal to their private-sector counterparts, are hoping to enforce a clause from a previous agreement to …
