More than half of people held in New York City jails receive mental health services during their incarceration, highlighting the role Rikers Island plays as a major site of psychiatric care — and raising questions about whether jail can provide...
Corey Mahoney was in the hospital preparing for surgery on his infected kidney when he learned he’d been fired. By the time management at Alliance Ground International terminated him, Mahoney had been raising concerns for months over consistent safety issues and wage theft in his workplace...
Workers at four New York City museums represented by Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers have voted to authorize strikes in the event of a continued stalemate with management for new contracts...
“AutoZone is terminating your employment as a result of your failure to act appropriately as a manager by engaging in and/or facilitating union activity.” It was not a shock to Nathan DuCongé when one of his bosses at AutoZone told him he was being fired...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and city officials launched a new workforce center in Lower Manhattan Sept. 28 designed to help New Yorkers navigate the process of finding and securing jobs in public service. The Jobs NYC Center, at 2 Lafayette Street, was...
Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North...
A 51-year-old New York City man has been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $128,000 in pension benefits by continuing to collect payments intended for his mother for nearly two years after her death, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg...
Healthcare workers gathered outside Lenox Hill Hospital Sept. 24 as part of a nationwide day of action focused on immigrant workers, with labor leaders warning that changes to immigration protections could deepen staffing challenges and affect...
New York City officials announced a record $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash on Tuesday, saying the delivery company underpaid more than 260,000 workers and calling it the largest worker settlement in New York history and the largest...
The final defendant in a scheme that prosecutors say sold fake construction safety certifications to roughly 20,000 workers has pleaded guilty, further prompting condemnation from the city’s building trades over the consequences of fake training...
Workers at She Wolf Bakery in Brooklyn and their allies rallied outside of their Navy Yard workplace on Friday to protest management's refusal to acquiesce to their union's demands on healthcare, wages and more over two years into...
An MTA policy allowing subway station booths to go unstaffed violates the state’s Human Rights Law due to its "unlawful disparate impact" on disabled and impaired riders, a judge ruled on Friday. The ruling blocking future...
Around 20 staffers at the New York Times rallied to highlight their push for a new collective bargaining agreement outside a gala celebrating the newspaper's 175th anniversary in Tribeca on Sept. 17. “This is a show of unity,” said...
FDNY ambulances took, on average, 13 minutes and nine seconds to respond to life-threatening medical emergencies in Fiscal Year 2026, over a one minute and 48 seconds longer than the previous year, according to the Mayor's Management Report. It's...
A former New York City correction officer was sentenced this week to two years of probation and ordered to pay back more than $80,000 after falsely claiming she was on military duty and collecting paid leave from the city for more than a...
The results of two new investigations released this week by New York City’s Department of Investigation expose weaknesses and malfeasance in the administration of the Police Pension Fund, finding that the absence of proper procedures and oversight allowed some NYPD officials to...
Unionized City Council employees rallied on the steps of City Hall Tuesday to call for Council leadership to finalize a contract agreement covering 96 employees whose wage rates have yet to be settled. Dozens of City Council employees in the...
New York City remains one of the most heavily unionized places in the country, but the steady decline of private-sector labor organizing presents a formidable challenge for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pro-labor administration, according to a new report...
Ian O’Hara worked part-time as a barista at Blue Bottle Coffee for almost a year and a half before the company wrongfully terminated him in January, leaving O'Hara “immensely blindsided...
88,136 bottles of hand sanitizer, 38,400 bottles of water, 15,000 masks; these are some of the items that an official appointed to fix the finances of Local 1182 of the Communications Workers of America purchased with...
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union is using the anniversary to renew its push in organizing tens of thousands of New York City security officers, arguing that the workers who help keep the city’s...
Transport Workers Union international president John Samuelsen sent a letter to the leader of TWU Local 100 in July criticizing the local's bargaining strategy for the latest contract covering 40,000 workers at the MTA, displaying a division...
The Public Employees Federation rallied outside the state Department of Financial Services’ Manhattan headquarters Sept. 8, accusing the agency of allowing a yearslong culture of bullying, intimidation and retaliation and calling for an...
The sister of Sean Tallon, 26, who died in the North tower on 9/11, Tallon became a staunch advocate for transparency, accountability, skyscraper safety and 9/11 memorialization in the years after the attacks alongside a bevy of family members...
Eric Chee, a 63-year-old man who grew up in China, remembers the vicarious terror he felt watching news coverage of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. “It was nighttime in Shanghai, my second child was just born...