The city’s nearly 82,000 private security officers would gradually begin to see increases in their pay, benefits, training and paid time off, according to City Council legislation introduced this week. It is aimed at improving the guards’ working conditions as well as lowering the sector’s annual turnover rate of 77 percent.
FDNY ambulance’s average response times to life-threatening medical emergencies climbed by almost 30 seconds in fiscal year 2025 compared to the previous year, according to the mayor’s management report, the fourth year in a row that response...
After 18 weeks in the FDNY academy, 344 probationary firefighters graduated into the ranks of the bravest on Thursday in front of their families and department leadership. The class is the second to have graduated in 2025, and includes 135 former...
Pensions are poised to top Governor Phil Murphy’s list of achievements regardless of what else the term-limited Democrat accomplishes before he leaves office in four months. Since his initial election as governor in 2017, Murphy has boosted...
Connecticut’s largest state employee union urged Governor Ned Lamont to abandon talks of investing pension assets in the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun and focus on negotiating overdue wage agreements for public-sector workers. “These members have put...
In the days following the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, numerous workers have been fired for their comments on his death, among them MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd. Several conservative activists have sought to...
A report by the City Comptroller’s office raised "serious concerns" about the Department of Sanitation's implementation of its commercial waste zones program, finding that the agency awarded lucrative contracts to companies with poor safety...
Four state prison correction officers pleaded guilty Monday in connection with the death of Robert Brooks, a Black inmate whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison was captured on bodycam videos. Two guards facing a top charge of murder...
A former employee at the city’s largest public-employee retirement system has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for stealing $624,000 from two pensioners' accounts, prompting the Department of Investigation to issue a scathing report...
Mayor Eric Adams has thrown his administration’s weight behind longtime efforts to end the horse-drawn carriage industry in New York City, by calling for the City Council to pass legislation that would phase out the carriages and replace them with...
Management at New York Legal Assistance group suspended six unionized workers over their refusal to take down posters referencing starvation in the Gaza Strip and criticizing the United States’ role in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The...
NYCERS will walk back a policy change made in January that eliminated retirees’ ability to appeal rejections for disability benefits, Rachel Assisi, the pension fund’s deputy director of communications said in an email to The Chief on...
A proposed Caesars Palace casino in Times Square that's backed by Jay-Z lost its bid for a gambling license Wednesday after running into fierce opposition from Broadway theater owners and producers who were worried about its potential impact on...
For decades, state statute shielded the disciplinary records of police officers and other uniformed civil servants from public view, preventing independent oversight of internal investigations and frustrating people who filed claims about...
Transport Workers Union International President John Samuelsen and his full slate of officers were unanimously reelected this week at the union’s 27th Constitutional Convention in Las Vegas. Tuesday's vote by acclamation marked the second...
Municipal Credit Union, the largest credit union in the New York metro area, has been recognized for the second year in a row as one of New York’s “Best & Brightest Companies to Work For” by the National Association for Business Resources. The...
Representatives from five unions representing thousands of Long Island Rail Road Workers announced Monday that they’re asking President Donald Trump to intervene in negotiations between the unions and the Metropolitan Transit Authority,...
Workers at the New York Foundation for the Arts announced last week that they are seeking to unionize with United Auto Workers Local 2110, marking the first time in the nonprofit’s 50-year history that its staff has organized. NYFA serves 1...
She remodeled her Nassau County home, indulged in spa treatments, purchased luxury items and otherwise spent tens of thousands of dollars, funds that were otherwise intended to provide employment and education services for needy New Yorkers. In...
Recently enacted legislation looks to breathe new life into a panel of New York state and local officials charged with looking into the impacts of toxic exposures at ground zero and making...
Three bills aimed at boosting the wages and protections of delivery workers and decriminalizing street vending that were vetoed by Mayor Eric Adams when first passed were approved once again by the City Council on Wednesday. More than two-thirds...
Amid the Trump administration’s cuts to service and jobs programs, New York City is increasing its investment. The Adams administration announced Sept. 9 that it was committing $3.2 million to expand the city’s Civic Corps Program to all five...
Amid memorials for the 343 members of the FDNY who perished on 9/11 and the over 400 who have died from World Trade Center-related illnesses in the 24 years since, firefighters, union leaders, 9/11 survivor advocates and lawmakers lamented the...
On what promises to be a crisp, cloudless late-summer morning, much like that of 24 years ago, the Bell of Hope at St. Paul's Chapel will sound six times today, its knell reaching to the 9/11 Memorial plaza two blocks west. Six moments of silence,...
All of the unionized staff at one of Greenwich Village’s oldest movie theaters has been fired. The firings, of nearly a dozen workers, followed a picket organized in response to operational changes by the theater's owner, organizers...