The other night at KGB Bar in the East Village, the novelist, screenwriter and former Daily News columnist Denis Hamill recounted how his father’s experiences as a unionized factory worker shaped him as he was growing up. Hamill also reminisced...
Members of public sector unions in New York City could soon see their right to decertify their unions expanded following a ruling last month in a case between the state agency tasked with administering labor law in the public sector...
Workers across the country responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration 's aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off probationary employees who have...
A supervisor at Horizon Juvenile Center who previously pleaded guilty to assaulting a 16-year-old detainee was sentenced to time served and two years’ post release supervision by a federal judge Thursday. Daquan Seymour, 34, an associate youth...
An FDNY EMT has been arrested on murder and other charges in connection with the April 2021 killing during a robbery attempt of a 22-year-old Queens man as he sat in the driver’s seat of his parked Range Rover in Astoria. Jordan Hannah,...
The Adams administration has announced a program that will provide job opportunities for 1,500 New Yorkers who are involved in the criminal justice system. The initiative, known as the Community Resources for Employment and Development program,...
A former fraud investigator with the New York City Department of Homeless Services who impersonated homeless people to fraudulently obtain Covid unemployment benefits has been sentenced to 27 months in prison, federal authorities...
Brooklyn Museum management announced Friday that the museum will lay off nearly 50 employees and cut top executive’s salaries in order to prevent the institution’s budget deficits from worsening. Of the 47 employees set to be terminated, 19...
The Day Care Council of New York and the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators have reached a tentative contract agreement on behalf of administrators working at publicly-funded day care centers that includes 33.62 percent in compounded...
The FDNY does not have enough firefighting equipment designed to suppress brush fires to combat the worsening scourge of outdoor blazes, top FDNY officials and leadership of a union representing FDNY fire officers testified at a City Council...
Governor Kathy Hochul is calling for the arrests of state correction officers on criminal charges following autopsy results concluding that the fatal beating of prisoner Robert Brooks was a homicide. The autopsy found that Brooks was killed...
Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders that closely align with proposals outlined in Project 2025, raising fears about the impact of these policies on workers, especially those in the...
The city would spend $1 million to expand mental health services for FDNY EMS workers under a proposal announced Wednesday by the City Council’s progressive caucus on the steps of City Hall. The program is part of a $61 Million budget request for...
Firefighters are more likely to be diagnosed with and die from cancer than the general public, studies have shown. In order to combat this, Governor Kathy Hochul has introduced legislation that would prohibit the sale of firefighter gear...
Businesses from day cares to grocery stores and hair salons closed Monday across the U.S. in a loosely organized day of protest against President Donald Trump's immigration policies. But participation in the "day without immigrants" faced...
The Adams administration is betting that it can reconfigure the city’s commercial office sector to entice the best of the best of the business world to New York and generate thousands of jobs for residents. Kicking off what the administration has...
All seven categories of major dipped last month compared with January 2024, contributing to a 16.8-percent year-over-year decline citywide, NYPD officials said. Police recorded double-digit decreases in murders, shootings, grand larcenies, auto...
Unionized workers at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn and Manhattan voted with 98 percent support to authorize a strike and filed an unfair labor practice charge in the wake of mass layoffs at the dine-in movie theater chain. As part of a...
A former superintendent at the city Housing Authority has been sentenced to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after he accepted hundreds of thousands in bribes in exchange for approving contracts. Juan Mercado, 50, who worked as...
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has announced a series of department-led efforts to crack down on crime and disorder, particularly in the subway, in part by combating so-called “quality of life” offenses. Saying that officers have “too long” been...
The Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York last month became the third public sector union to pass a resolution calling on members’ pensions to be divested from Israeli companies, bonds and securities. The 30,000-member...
In order to address the shortage of paraprofessionals in the city’s public school system, the United Federation of Teachers joined several members of the City Council Thursday to push for the passage of a bill that would provide paras with annual...
A second former FDNY chief in the department’s Bureau of Fire Prevention who was accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for expediting inspections of certain buildings has pleaded guilty, federal prosecutors...
A Brooklyn arbitrator has ordered NYU Langone-Brooklyn to reinstate nine nurses with back pay after they were terminated following an incident in which a pregnant woman gave birth unattended on a hallway floor, according to their union. On Dec....
The president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, Richard Davis, has been suspended from his post following allegations that he pressured a union employee into having sex with him on several occasions and then threatened to kill her if she spoke...
