When Celeste Kirkland started her career in the MTA as a station agent 20 years ago, she knew that she wouldn't stay in that position for long. Women have held clerical or customer service roles in the New York City Transit Authority, especially...
Hundreds of protestors gathered outside City Hall on March 8 to call for better working conditions for home health aides and the passage of the “No More 24” act, which would set limits on the hours employers can require them to work. Organizers...
When Samantha Martin entered the construction industry at 21, she was stepping into a world where women were still a rarity on most job sites. The path from apprentice carpenter to union leader would require long days, physical labor and the...
District Council 37 delegates passed a watered-down resolution that announced the union “opposes additional funding” for Immigration and Customs Enforcement but that fell short of calling for ICE to be abolished, as some delegates desired. The...
In a packed arena in Albany on Sunday filled with over 15,000 union members, Governor Kathy Hochul joined calls backed by union leaders representing millions of New Yorkers to reform the Tier 6 pension plan. “I'm fighting for a fairer...
Some have called them the “gatekeepers of secrets.” Others call them the “heartbeat of the city.” From lobby desks and service corridors, the doormen and building workers of New York witness the everyday life of the world’s best city...
In response to drastic cuts at The New School, university students, faculty and staff marched down West 12th Street on March 4th to hand deliver a letter and petition addressed to university president Joel Towers. “While the President’s Office...
Hundreds of workers flocked to Albany last week for the latest step in an effort to convince lawmakers, particularly Governor Kathy Hochul, to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers. The Tax The Rich campaign is backed by a number of unions,...
After years of frustration over pay, workplace changes and a shifting company culture, air dispatchers and operations workers at JetBlue Airways voted Feb. 26 to join the Transport Workers Union of America, reviving a union drive that had...
Workers at the Patagonia store in downtown Manhattan say that upper management is breathing down their necks as they push to unionize their workplace, seeking greater job security and the restoration of lost benefits. Last month, workers at...
At a rally staged just after New York University’s unionized full-time, non-tenure track faculty held their latest bargaining session with university management, union leadership announced that if they don’t have a contract by March 23, they will...
Early Thursday morning, federal immigration agents entered a Columbia University residential building after displaying a poster for a missing 5-year-old girl and detained a student identified as Ellie Aghayeva. Neither the Department of Homeland...
Top FDNY officials and leadership of the unions representing FDNY first responders released their long-simmering frustration with a scourge found on countless city streets that they say makes firefighters, and all New Yorkers, less safe....
A viral snowball fight in Washington Square Park following New York City’s historic weekend snowfall has escalated into the first major public political confrontation between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD’s powerful police unions — exposing...
Even before the snow started falling on Sunday, New York City employees were traversing streets, sidewalks and staircases across the five boroughs, readying the city for what was predicted to be a historic snowfall. Twenty-four hours later, the...
A Feb. 13 meeting of the Municipal Labor Committee, presented to union leaders as an informational briefing on New York City’s new employee health plan, has sparked controversy after leaked audio revealed discussions about sharing municipal...
When Mayor Mamdani released his budget last week, he announced he would not move forward with former Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to hire 5,000 additional police officers and instead proposed cutting $22 million from the NYPD’s budget. The move has...
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has secured more than $500,000 in restitution for freelance workers after finding a Manhattan-based production company repeatedly failed to pay independent creatives on time, city...
Members of the New York State Pipe Trades Association elected Edward Nadeau to serve a four-year term as the next president of the statewide. The NYSPTA is a subsidiary of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and...
“I worked 24-hour shifts for 10 years and never got uninterrupted sleep,” said home care worker Xue Zhencheng at a Feb. 18 hearing reintroducing the “No More 24” bill, which would ban 24-hour shifts for home health aides. First introduced in...
NewYork-Presbyterian nurses announced Thursday that they had reached a second tentative agreement with hospital management a week after voting down their initial pact. The new agreement improves staffing standards and layoff protections key issues...
The city may have to raise property taxes and raid rainy day funds, including the Retiree Health Benefit Trust Fund, to close a massive budget gap for the coming fiscal year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani warned on Tuesday. Presenting the first preliminary...
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. This article was published in partnership with The New York Times. An investigator with the New...
Many New York State retirees will pay hundreds of dollars more in healthcare premiums each month under Governor Kathy Hochul's budget proposal to eliminate a Medicare reimbursement program. ...
Not long after you pass through turnstiles and enter the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn, you’re greeted by photos of workers who created and maintained the city’s transit system. The sandhogs, tracklayers, construction workers and...