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. …
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.
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.
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 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 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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
City police officers are once again prohibited from using certain types of restraints when making arrests.
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.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority failed to report more than 200 assaults against workers in recent years, according to the state Department of Labor.
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 …
In a move that left some corporate leaders stewing, the White House last week invited a handful of grassroots union organizers from across the country to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and …
Patrick Cullen, who will begin a fourth term as president of the New York State Supreme Court Officers Association in July, has a full slate of tasks ahead of him.The union leader, along with his …
Murders and shootings dropped significantly in April compared to a year ago, slowing a trend that claimed several innocent lives already this year and rocked a city still contending with the …
While hiring is underway to fill 540 full-time faculty at the City University of New York, the Professional Staff Congress continues to advocate that CUNY department chairs hire internal adjuncts for …
The number of nonfatal injuries and illnesses among private-sector nurses skyrocketed 291 percent between 2019 and 2020, according to data released May 6 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. There …
Teachers earn significantly less than other professionals with similar levels of educational attainment, and many are leaving the occupation because of burnout.
Their narrow staircases are tucked between the lowrises along crowded, bustling Flushing. The entrances to the multitude of spas and massage parlors would be easy to miss. But stickers on the concrete walls point the way, and decorative floor banners, often in a signature pink, are another draw.
