A special prosecutor said Monday he made offers to resolve criminal cases against 10 New York prison guards indicted in the beating death of a handcuffed man. Six correctional officers were charged with murder last month in the December death of...
Unions representing more than 5,000 workers at Columbia are demanding that the university stand up to the Trump administration’s attempts to control the university, protect students and reinstate workers that have been expelled and terminated....
The New York City Department of Transportation broke city labor law when it outsourced Staten Island Ferry service to a private contractor on New Year’s Eve 2022, the Board of Collective Bargaining ruled last month. DOT, concerned...
A former chief in the Fire Department’s Bureau of Fire Prevention was sentenced to 20 months in prison and two years of supervised release for accepting more than $50,000 in bribes in exchange for expediting building inspections, the city...
President Donald Trump moved Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law. The order, signed without...
Policies ordered by the Trump administration are threatening to undo progress made to close the gender and racial wage gap, advocates said at an Equal Pay Day rally. Union leaders, members of the City Council, and advocates from Legal...
Labor advocates, union members and families gathered at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place Tuesday to honor the 146 workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 114 years ago. The workers, who were predominantly Italian...
A federal appeals court has upheld a settlement outlining how the NYPD should police protests, rejecting the city’s largest police union’s challenge to the agreement. Although the Police Benevolent Association argued in their appeal that the...
The former president of a city lifeguard union and two of his deputies violated the union’s constitution, the judicial panel of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees ruled this week. But as punishment for the violations,...
Months after securing a $4.3-million settlement with the city for hundreds of FDNY fire protection inspectors who claimed they weren’t paid properly for overtime, the workers’ union is seeking a second bite of the apple. Leadership of...
Unions representing some 640,000 employees that buoy the United States Postal Service held rallies across the country last week amid what union leaders say is an unprecedented assault on the 250-year-old service by the Trump...
Resident physicians at Montefiore Medical Center have reached a tentative contract agreement that includes 18 percent raises and a housing stipend, their union, SEIU's Committee of Interns and Residents, announced this week. The tentative deal,...
On a recent Tuesday night, the hottest show at the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn wasn’t Bong Joon-ho’s new sci-fi flick “Mickey 17” or the family-friendly “Paddington in Peru.” It was arguably the two dozen Alamo workers on strike outside,...
A reduction to one law enforcement officer from two cops at a critical juncture along the 2,000-square-mile network that provides water to the city and the elimination of officers altogether at another could pose increased risks to the system, according to...
The remote-work pilot for District Council 37 members has been extended, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday. The landmark pilot program, which for the first time ever allowed qualified city employees represented by DC 37 to work from home up to...
The president of the union representing FDNY EMTs and paramedics is telling New Yorkers not to join the FDNY because the city treats his members like “second class citizens.” On the 5th anniversary of the first peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in New...
Although the city has projected that there will be 400,000 green jobs by 2040 as part of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions, job growth in the green economy has been slowed by several challenges, according to a recent report. The study...
2025 is “Fire Prevention Year,” Mayor Eric Adams and FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker declared last week, marking 100 years since the inception of National Fire Prevention Week. President Calvin Coolidge formally created National Fire Prevention...
The City Comptroller has won settlements that recovered $525,152.20 in unpaid prevailing wages with four building and construction contractors, his office announced Thursday. Comptroller Brad Lander announced that his office reached a settlement...
New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander announced his “Workers’ Rights Platform” on Thursday, promising that as mayor he would push to raise the minimum wage, expand just cause protections, guarantee workers’ more time off,...
Challengers in the upcoming elections for the United Federation of Teachers are calling for a new direction in the union. Next Monday marks the deadline for receipt of nominations, where longtime president Michael Mulgrew will face-off...
“It’s been the job of a lifetime,” says Catherine Rinaldi, Metro-North’s first female president, who is set to retire at the end of the month. “It’s been just such an honor and a privilege to be able to lead this amazing organization … these...
Three former Rikers corrections officers, an inmate and others connected to the island penal colony have been sentenced to prison terms for conspiring to smuggle fentanyl, marijuana and other contraband in exchange for thousands of dollars in...
Although the headcount of municipal employees in the city has rebounded since the pandemic, some agencies have sustained staffing reductions, the city’s Independent Budget Office found in a recent report. For years, the number of full-time city...
Jo Anne Cloughly, a professor of culinary arts at SUNY Cobleskill in upstate New York, considers watching young people learn and grow to be the best thing about working in the food industry. As a culinary and agricultural retail educator, she...
