Sonam Ghisling Lama begins his days by 8 a.m. and works until 6 or 7 in the evening—an average of 50-55 hours each week spent hurrying people to their meetings and doctor’s appointments, picking …
“It was as though we had all done something wrong. It shouldn't have been. We were sorry. Mea culpa! Mea culpa! We didn't want it that way." Speaking at Cornell University in 1964, Frances …
A second Amazon warehouse in Staten Island will have a union election next month, the National Labor Relations Board said last week. In-person voting will be held at the facility known as LDJ5 …
Advocates and lawmakers are pushing back on Governor Kathy Hochul’s plan to enact more restrictive bail laws as she looks to respond to increases in major crimes and gun violence. Hochul said she …
Faculty and staff at the City University of New York represented by the Professional Staff Congress must be fully vaccinated against coronavirus by April 1, but the union questioned why that policy …
In a damning indictment of the Department of Correction’s new leadership team, the federal monitor overseeing reforms in city jails found that DOC efforts to thwart violence inside lockups has …
The city’s public-hospital system plans to terminate nearly 900 contact tracers in late April as its contact tracing program concludes. NYC Health + Hospitals will lay off 874 contact tracers …
Amplifying her contention soon after taking office last August that policing as a profession was "broken," AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a podcast that aired March 9 that if cops who were …
Freelancers who work on film and TV production in the city have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election. The more than 150 workers with the Post Production …
With renewed mission and a profile makeover, the NYPD’s reconstituted anti-crime units have returned to city streets to combat spikes in violent crime driven by what officials have said is a …
Like so many nonprofit human-services employees, Johanna Ortiz, a pediatric community health worker, often struggles to make ends meet. “There is no greater satisfaction than the gratitude the …
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reverberated across global financial systems, and also here. Trustees of the $88 billion municipal employees fund as well as those governing the funds of the …
In another step toward a return to pre-pandemic normalcy, the city on March 7 lifted the mask mandate that had been in place since the fall of 2020, when schools shifted to remote and …
Five fatal medical incidents involving firefighters since December have prompted FDNY unions to demand that the department explore possible links between the deaths and so-called long COVID or the …
A Federal appeals court has granted the Police Benevolent Association the right to intervene in lawsuits stemming from the NYPD’s handling of street protests following the May 2020 death of …
With the number of School Safety Agents down more than 20 percent since June 2020 because of attrition and a wave of retirements, Schools Chancellor David Banks said he is hopeful of adding another …
A Manhattan Supreme Court Justice has ruled that the NYC Medicare Advantage Plus plan scheduled to take effect April 1 was illegal as constituted because it placed a greater financial burden on retirees who elected to stay in the current Senior Care program
The Municipal Labor Committee July 14 overwhelmingly approved a transition from the city's Medicare program for retired employees and their beneficiaries to a privately managed plan that is …
City workers can breathe a sigh of relief that they will not be getting layoff notices before the Nov. 3 election, Mayor de Blasio said during his Oct. 14 press briefing. For months he had warned …
