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A Manhattan postal worker and her partner have been indicted on charges of stealing credit cards and checks from mail bound for addresses in Midtown, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin …

DiGiacomo, DEA head and 41-year cop, leaves NYPD

Paul DiGiacomo’s NYPD career spanned high-crime epochs, the crack scourge, the 9/11 terror attacks, Covid and also numerous successes, challenges and tragedies that a decades-long tenure on the job …

The state Department of Labor has recovered more than $63 million in stolen wages in the two years since the agency heightened efforts to combat wage theft, the governor’s office announced Monday. …

LIC charter school teachers seek first contract

Teachers at a Long Island City charter school are alleging that school’s officials are stalling negotiations but are holding out hope to settle a first contract before the start of the school …

FDNY firefighters who took the 2022 lieutenant’s exam remain puzzled and frustrated as to why a curve was applied to test results even as the department has started promoting from the resulting …

City petitions state’s high court to back Medicare switch

The Adams administration has petitioned the Court of Appeals to sanction its effort to shift 250,000 retired municipal workers to a privately administered Medicare Advantage plan.  In an appeals …

NJ Transit engineers inch closer to strike

New Jersey Transit engineers are one step closer to walking out on strike after the National Mediation Board concluded more than four years of bargaining between the engineers’ union and the …

Five current and former employees at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center are facing federal bribery charges for allegedly smuggling marijuana, razor blades and other contraband into the facility, …

A group of unionized office cleaners who had their benefits stripped and wages cut in half rallied outside of their midtown workplace Wednesday, looking to pressure their contractor and the …

At the Triangle Factory fire site, a memorial ribbon rises

At the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Greenwich Village, along the brick and terra-cotta facade of the neo-Renaissance building there, a stainless steel band soars to the …

“All of this could end tomorrow. I just want to go back to throwing garbage in the rain,” said Daniel Hulkower, a former city sanitation worker who lost his job for refusing to get vaccinated …

FDNY firefighter exam registration opens

Registration for the FDNY’s open competitive exam for firefighters opened on Monday, more than three months after it was initially scheduled. Firefighter hopefuls between the ages of 17 ½ and 29 …

With the city’s budget deadline looming, nearly two dozen state and federal lawmakers signed onto a letter urging Mayor Eric Adams to invest in programs that would make the city more affordable for …

The state agency tasked with administering labor law in the public sector has been pushing its city counterpart to alter a rule it applies to union members to make it easier for public employees to …

Among the various retail and service workplaces where employees have formed unions since 2021, Blank Street Coffee, the private equity-backed coffee chain that first opened in Brooklyn in 2020, is …

UFT withdraws support for city’s Medicare plan

In a potentially significant setback for the Adams administration’s effort to switch municipal retirees to a cost-saving private health plan, the United Federation of Teachers has withdrawn its …

Nearly 2,800 New York City Health + Hospitals doctors are seeking a contract that will provide salaries that allow the public hospital system to retain physicians. Doctors, their union, the Service …

Lawmakers revived improved benefit plan — for a very few

In June 1995, state lawmakers created a pension plan giving a sizable cohort of New York City municipal workers the opportunity to opt in to a 55/25 improved benefit retirement program. The plan …

School cleaners and handypersons with Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ have ratified a contract agreement that will provide them with a 10-percent pension boost, their first …

Insurgent slate wins UFT retiree chapter election

I n a significant setback to the union’s leadership, f ormer educators with the Retiree Advocate caucus of the United Federation of Teachers have ousted the incumbent Unity slate.  In …

Council staffers call on NYCERS to divest from Israel

The union representing City Council staff has adopted resolutions calling on the New York City Employees’ Retirement System to divest from Israel and companies profiting from the war in the Gaza …

EMS unions, city start talks on a new contract

Leaders of the two FDNY EMS unions are set to meet with the city’s labor negotiators on Tuesday for their first scheduled bargaining session on a new contract. Bargaining has been delayed because …

The September 11 terror attacks continue to have severe implications for first responders and other workers and volunteers who toiled at ground zero and elsewhere following the collapse of the World …

Transit union enshrines right to Medicare

A union representing transit workers has approved a new amendment to their constitution that would bar the union from bargaining away retirees’ traditional Medicare coverage. Members of the Transit …

Wendy Remy has worked as a paralegal at the Legal Aid Society for more than 50 years, serving clients throughout the city and also working one or two jobs on the side to supplement her income. As she …

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