On Nov. 24, workers at the Al Gore-backed technology refurbisher and seller Back Market announced their union, Back Market United, ahead of the e-commerce company’s busiest week of the year. “E-commerce businesses typically don’t unionize, so this is impressive for them to do...
About two dozen plumbers in denim uniforms and chunky brown boots stood behind city and union leaders at a Western Queens training center on Monday as officials announced a labor deal designed to create more middle-class jobs...
Citing the need for cohesion and continuity, NYPD unions welcomed Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s decision to remain in the post as Zohran Mamdani, the near-antithesis of his law-order predecessor, prepares to take office. The presidents of...
Office cleaners who service buildings at 373 and 381 Park Avenue South rallied last week to protest against policies instituted by their bosses the first day they started owning the buildings. Planned Building Services has told the union...
Nearly 1,000 professional and non-professional staff at The Metropolitan Museum of Art last week petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election, joining a wave of museum workers across the country seeking collective bargaining...
Firefighters encounter thousands of harmful potentially cancer-causing chemicals each time they don their firefighting gear to battle blazes across the city. But for decades, FDNY firefighters have been using gear that itself contains dangerous...
Health care workers, union leaders and local politicians took to the cold sidewalk in front of the Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn on Nov. 19 to rally against an infrastructure plan for the hospital that workers said is unsafe and could...
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is demanding a hearing on a City Council bill that would require Amazon and other last-mile delivery companies to directly employ delivery drivers. Instead of hiring drivers directly, Amazon currently...
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said she believes she has a mandate to fulfill campaign promises of making the state more affordable, and the Democrat is dialing back on her criticism of Republican President Donald Trump for now. Her...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Monday that he hopes to meet with President Donald Trump to find ways the political polar opposites can work together on the central focus of his winning campaign: affordability. At an appearance at a food pantry...
The city should take steps to sever EMS from the FDNY and create a new Department of Emergency Medical Services. That was the message conveyed by the leaders of two unions representing EMS workers and officers at a City Council hearing last...
The city’s long-awaited shift to a new health insurance plan for active and retired city employees and their dependents cleared a final procedural hurdle last week when Comptroller Brad Lander’s office registered the contract for the NYC Employees...
“International Street Vendor Day is when street vendors are recognized for their contributions and are celebrated by the world. But today we’re here because we want recognition from our own city.” So said Guadalupe Sosa, a lifelong Harlem...
Deb Daniels has come a long way from selling weed on Atlanta’s illicit market. Now a budtender at Yerba Buena, a legal recreational cannabis dispensary in Brooklyn, Daniels and his coworkers are given samples of new strains, edible cannabis...
City workers determined to divest their pensions from Israeli stocks and bonds as well as companies that work with the Israeli military are pushing the incoming city comptroller, Mark Levine, to commit to divestment. A group of activist civil...
A City Council committee rejected legislation Friday that would have phased out the city's horse-drawn carriage industry. The vote on Ryder's Law, or Intro 0967, ended 4-1 against the measure, with Council Member Simcha Felder casting the sole...
Citing continued improvements in safety, staffing and behavior management, the federal monitoring team overseeing conditions of adolescent offenders at the Horizon Juvenile Center in the Bronx has concluded that its mission “is complete.” In its...
The vivid blue campaign signs with bold orange lettering were impossible to miss as Zohran Mamdani made his historic and improbable run for New York City mayor this summer. On storefront windows and telephone poles from Queens to the Bronx, the...
The Transport Workers Union has filed suit in State Supreme Court in Manhattan accusing the animal-rights group NYCLASS of waging a yearslong campaign of harassment and defamation aimed at eliminating the city’s horse-drawn carriage industry.
Three youth development specialists with the city’s Administration for Children’s Services have been charged in federal court with participating in a bribery scheme in which they allegedly smuggled marijuana, tobacco and other contraband into...
In a solemn, time-honored ceremony attended by hundreds of his fellow Bravest, FDNY firefighters saluted their fallen friend, Firefighter Patrick Brady, Sunday by placing purple and black bunting on the exterior of Brady’s firehouse, Ladder 120/Engine 231, in Brooklyn.
The city will offer a second chance at reinstatement to nearly 3,000 former city employees fired for not complying with Covid vaccination mandates instituted four years ago, Mayor Eric Adams said this week. The terminated employees will be eligible to return to their previous civil service titles at current pay rates . . .
FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker on Wednesday informed Mayor Eric Adams that he will resign next month, according to the department. Tucker, in a statement, said that it was the “honor of a lifetime” to serve as the FDNY’s 35th...
The city recorded the fewest shootings and murders in its modern history through the first 10 months of the year, according to figures released Monday by the NYPD. The department said both the city and its transit system also saw record-low crime...
The head of the NYPD’s largest union is skeptical that Mayor Eric Adams’ pledge to boost the number of cops by 5,000 within a few years can ease the department’s attrition challenges ...