Five years ago, Jesse Lopez Martinez and his family started a food truck business in Sunset Park, typically stationing on Fifth Avenue’s commercial strip, between 47th and 48th Street. But despite securing the necessary permits and licenses, he...
A cowbell, a saxophone, drums and chants of solidarity rang out in Midtown Friday as dozens of students and staff of the City University of New York rallied outside CUNY’s central office on East 42nd Street in support of four adjunct faculty...
With the federal government shutdown about to enter its third week, hundreds of thousands of workers across the country could face real and significant financial peril. Some will have received partial pay Friday, but with no resolution to...
The FDNY honored eight of its fallen from the past year at its Memorial Day Service inside St. John the Divine Cathedral on Wednesday, the 118th such service in the department’s history. Those honored include Fire Captain Thomas LaBarbiera, of...
Three unions that frequently take sides in thorny fights over housing, hotel and office developments threw their support behind the movement against three ballot initiatives that proponents say would make it easier to build housing in the city....
The Trump administration may try to interpret a law enacted during his first term in office differently than it did following the last government shutdown, potentially denying back pay to hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal...
Despite an arbitrator’s sanction of a collective bargaining agreement covering workers at an Upstate apple farm, the company has refused to institute its provisions. The deadlock led workers at Wafler Farms in Wayne County late last month...
A state judge has thrown out a criminal indictment against prison guards and administrators accused in the brutal 2021 beatdown of women incarcerated at the troubled Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, a decision the New Jersey Attorney...
One morning earlier this year, as Deb Capistrano came on duty for her shift as a nurse in her hospital’s stroke unit, her colleagues from the night shift warned her that one of her patients for the day was a man who’d been threatening to harm...
President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, saying he planned to meet with budget director Russ Vought to talk through "temporary or permanent" spending...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that the government shutdown is putting more stress on air traffic controllers who already have an extremely stressful job, as well as threatening a program that small communities rely on to help...
Delivery workers can now take workshops on road safety and workers' rights, use free bike parking and borrow repair kits at ten Brooklyn Public Library branches under a pilot program launched in August. The Delivering Together program also...
Over three years since their last collective bargaining agreement with the city expired, the union representing FDNY EMTs, paramedics and fire protection inspectors is launching a new campaign in the hopes of getting New Yorkers to support EMS...
Private carters have earned over $16 million in the first six months of the Commercial Waste Zone program’s pilot program, the Department of Sanitation revealed in a report this week. The program, spurred by a 2019 law that overhauled the city’s...
The city saw historic declines in major crimes through September, with shootings and shooting victims dropping to record-lows, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Dips in major crimes from July through September marked seven straight...
The results of the open competitive exam for FDNY firefighter are expected to be made public by late December, according to officials at the FDNY and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. Applicants took the multiple-choice portion...
At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence. Frequently dubbed the “Godfather of AI,”...
Despite doubt among some labor leaders who said they had too little information to make an informed decision, unions representing municipal workers have signed off on a cost-saving health-benefit agreement city and union officials reached...
A decade or so ago, Gilfredo Valentin used to pull $15 an hour as a roofer on affordable-housing projects in the city. Just starting out in the trade, he thought that was a decent, even pretty good wage. But he soon realized that he couldn’t both pay his bills and take care of other necessities. Like food.
Amid pouring rain, Uber and Lyft drivers stood outside the City Hall gates to push for a City Council bill that would provide protections against unfair and sudden account deactivations. The rally was organized by the New York Taxi Workers...
New Yorkers right to paid and unpaid leave will be expanded after the City Council last week voted to pass a bill that broadens the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act. The bill expands the conditions under which workers can use safe or sick leave and...
A former NYPD detective faces the possibility of 20 years in prison after admitting in federal court that he participated in a violent robbery crew, accepted bribes to provide confidential law-enforcement information and tipped off accomplices...
Amazon and other delivery companies would have to employ their delivery drivers directly rather than through third-party contractors under a bill introduced in the City Council on Wednesday. Council Member Tiffany Cabán’s Delivery Protection Act...
A week after the head of Brooklyn Defender Services allegedly tried to convince a union delegate to replace their union with a company-sponsored one, workers held a one-hour lunchtime picket Thursday to call for BDS’s executive director, Lisa Schreibersdorf, to resign.
Citing a lack of details, a number of unions representing New York City municipal workers appear hesitant to sign off on a cost-saving health-benefit agreement city and union officials reached with two major insurance firms in late August. At...