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On a normal Wednesday morning, a correction officer at Rikers Island was making his routine rounds when he felt what he later described as “sandpaper” scrape across his face. It was not sandpaper but a shiv wielded by an inmate, Shemar Shaw, a reputed gang member being held at Rikers on charges that he stabbed a man at Rockefeller Center...
In an industry defined by physical risk, construction workers in New York are beginning to acknowledge a new safety crisis – one of substance abuse and mental health struggles – which labor leaders say have gone unaddressed for...
The longtime international president of the American Federation of County, State and Municipal Employees announced last week that he would step down from his position in August, when the massive public employee union is set to hold its next...
In a first for the Transit Supervisors Organization, now known as TWU Local 106, the union’s entire leadership has been reelected without opposition, union officials announced following nominations held Feb. 12. All 21 officers on the Executive...
Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian overwhelmingly voted to reject a tentative agreement union leadership reached with management last weekend over that would have ended workers’ monthlong strike. Rank-and-file union members were outraged when...
A long-sought memo from October 2001 reveals that city officials feared 9/11 first responders and survivors returned to lower Manhattan too soon after the terror attacks, weren’t being provided with proper protective equipment and could suffer due to the toxic exposure.
The New York State Nurses Association declared victory for 10,500 nurses employed by Mount Sinai Health System and Montefiore Medical Center, announcing that the union had reached tentative agreements with both hospitals. NYSNA also announced a tentative agreement with New York-Presbyterian for 4,200 striking nurses.
Morale among the Department of Environmental Protection's police officers has reached “crisis levels,” according to several officers who say leadership’s decision to elevate academy recruits into specialized units over seasoned veterans has deepened frustration over pay, promotions, poor retirement benefits and what they describe as a growing culture of favoritism.
Claire Schlissel is the first New York City renter to be reimbursed under the Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses (FARE) Act, a law that outlaws the practice of landlords charging broker fees to tenants in New York City.
Unionized full-time faculty at New York University will cast ballots through Feb. 20 to decide if they walk out on strike after 15 months of bargaining with management. Strike authorization voting for members of the Contract Faculty Union at NYU began on Monday; it is the latest step in an escalating first contract campaign for the largest union...
Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week took steps to curb what they describe as the growing entanglement of public-sector workers in federal immigration enforcement, advancing parallel state and city actions to limit Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s reach in New York.
A former New York City correction officer was arrested Thursday on charges of defrauding the city by submitting falsified medical documentation to collect thousands of dollars in sick pay, according to the Department of Investigation. Melonie...
The World Trade Center Health Program will be fully funded through 2040...
In a major shakeup for New York City’s jail system...
Hundreds of members of the New York State Nurses Association...
District Council 37 leadership postponed a vote on a resolution...
As the sun set Friday and a bitter cold settled over the city, nearly 2,000 mourners...
Ongoing issues with bus operators’ two-way radios are creating serious safety concerns...
On Dec. 31, the final day of his administration, former Mayor Eric Adams...
Blue Power, Stuart Schrader writes, is “a biography not of a person but of a political force...
Three adjunct City University of New York professors who were told last summer...
A former civilian program counselor at the New York City Department of Correction was sentenced this week to three months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for accepting bribes to smuggle contraband into Rikers...
In a packed room in Brooklyn on Thursday, hosted by the Workers Justice Project, Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared the beginning of a “new era” of worker power...
Delivery apps can no longer bury the tipping option after checkout — a design trick that cost delivery workers in New York City more than $550 million in lost tips...