Transit workers who park vehicles in bus lanes while performing their jobs will no longer face fines under a new state law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in mid-December...
Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, honestly," says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under...
The Department of Parks and Recreation violated city labor law when it unilaterally changed the guidelines for city lifeguard vision tests, the Board of Collective Bargaining ruled in November. The BCB, which adjudicates disputes between the city...
After a months-long bargaining campaign, the New York State Nurses Association announced that about 20,000 nurses at a dozen private-sector hospitals voted to authorize a strike by a margin of 97 percent, giving their bargaining committees the...
When New York City passed a law in 2021 saying fast food bosses needed a legitimate reason to fire workers, New Yorkers had strong opinions. Critics said it would hurt businesses and kill jobs. Supporters said they needed protection from getting...
With less than a week until Mayor Eric Adams leaves office, unions representing more than 5,100 city workers have yet to agree to new collective bargaining agreements during his term. In the almost four years Adams was in office the city has...
Governor Kathy Hochul earlier this month vetoed a bill that would have mandated two workers to staff every single New York City subway train. The bill backed by Transport Workers Union Local 100 was vetoed by the governor on Dec. 5, but her...
Long-sought initiatives to protect the job security of delivery workers, protect street vendors and expand the pay and benefits of construction workers passed The City Council on Thursday. The measures, some pushed by labor unions and...
New York University clinical associate professor Dustin Jones handed an escalation letter from NYU’s contract faculty union to the university’s senior advisor for presidential priorities and initiatives at Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Dec. 16....
At most workplaces, there is a boss and an employee. The boss calls the shots — how much employees get paid, what drinks get put on the menu, what the exterior and interior design of the workplace will look like and more. If workers get burnt out,...
The construction industry in the United States is increasingly reliant on foreign-born workers, a group that’s come under increased threat this year from the Trump administration. More than 2.8 million construction workers were foreign born in...
Deep and widespread cuts planned in the coming weeks by the administration of The New School to fill a $48 million budget hole has spurred the educators, staff members and students of the university into open rebellion. Already workers and...
UPS violated New York Labor Law and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act by stealing wages from seasonal workers through failing to pay seasonal workers wages that were promised, a minimum wage or overtime wages, New York State Attorney General...
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has once again delayed the release of documents generated by the city in the weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that were the subject of a 2023 Freedom of Information Law request. The pushback, announced Dec....
Unionized workers, advocates, elected officials and babies rallied for universal child care outside Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in Midtown on Dec. 11, urging the governor to follow through on her goal to put New York on a path to universal child care...
Workers who deliver Amazon packages from a facility in Woodside Queens marched on their bosses on Tuesday to declare that they are unionizing with Local 804 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Around 200 workers at the DBK1 facility...
Several bills aimed at increasing pay equity in the city’s private sector were passed by the City Council last week, overriding vetoes by Mayor Eric Adams. The pay equity bills were two of the four bills vetoed by Adams that the Council overrode...
Several dozen editorial workers at Business Insider who are unionized with the NewsGuild of New York held a lunchtime rally Thursday to protest management’s adoption of artificial intelligence tools to produce news stories. Just before workers...
Post-doctoral researchers from the Einstein Researchers United Union rallied outside of the Price Building Wednesday calling for labor protections and fair wages from the Einstein College of Medicine administration. The gathering happened right...
Chaos unfolded outside of the Empire State Building Thursday afternoon as a dozen striking Starbucks workers were arrested by NYPD officers. In the latest escalation of Starbucks Workers United’s nationwide strike, 12 unionized Starbucks workers...
Elected officials and workers rallied on a cold and rainy day in Park Slope on Dec. 2 to demand that a restaurant owner pay immigrant workers still awaiting millions from a wage theft settlement. The New York State Department of Labor...
The city’s pool monitors are up in arms after three lifeguards and two lifeguard supervisors who failed a recertification swim test over the summer were fired by the Parks Department. The same day that several of the lifeguards took and failed the...
Amid a nationwide strike of 2,500 workers at over 120 Starbucks locations, the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced Monday that the city had reached a nearly $39 million dollar settlement with the coffee chain over more...
All 70 NYCHA employees connected to a bribery scheme uncovered in February 2024 have now been convicted, the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday. Dozens of employees participated in a decades-long...
Documents generated in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by the city’s Department of Environmental Protection that were released earlier this month has offered World Trade Center responders and their advocates the first glimpse into revelations on what city officials knew about the toxins that lingered over ground zero in the aftermath of the twin towers’ collapse.