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 …
