More police agencies, from big-city departments to federal agencies, are lowering education standards for new recruits — a sign of how much the profession is changing as it struggles to recruit and retain officers. In February, the NYPD reduced...
For years, Republicans have disparaged their political rivals by describing them as socialists. But that may not be the insult it once was for rank-and-file Democrats, who have warmed to socialism and increasingly see "capitalism" as a barb. A...
Before Tabitha Arnold found her own way as an artist, she tried to unionize her workplace. The Tennessee native studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy for Fine Art and after graduating took a job at a Green Line Cafe in Philadelphia while...
Later this month, the umbrella organization of the city’s public-sector unions, the Municipal Labor Committee, will vote on a proposed cost-saving municipal health plan negotiated by city and union officials with two major insurance...
President Donald Trump's administration said Friday that it is exploring whether the federal government can take control of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum at ground zero. Since opening to the public in 2014, the memorial plaza and museum have...
Amazon cancelled its contract with a delivery service partner that employed 105 drivers at a distribution center in Queens last month, effectively firing the workers who unionized with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters last year. At a...
New York City recorded the lowest number of shooting incidents and victims on record through the first eight months of 2025, according to NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch. Between January and August, the NYPD logged 489 shooting incidents and 611...
Unions representing hundreds of workers on the Long Island Railroad are holding strike authorization votes after more than a year and a half of bargaining mediated by the National Mediation Board failed to result in a contract. The Metropolitan...
To coincide with Labor Day, the office of City Comptroller Brad Lander updated its Employer Wall of Shame to list ten companies that were among the most egregious violators of workers’ rights in 2024. It includes massive employers like Amazon,...
Transport Workers Union Local 264 has filed a grievance against Barnard College, alleging that it violated the union contract and federal law by laying off a pregnant woman to avoid paying her maternity leave and cut costs. The local, which...
A Local 100 official who was ousted from his position in union leadership after intervening in a love triangle between three bus operators says his removal was the result of retaliation from the union's top leaders. J.P Patafio the former vice...
Curtis Sliwa, the colorful creator of New York City's Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol group, ran for mayor four years ago and wound up losing to Democrat Eric Adams by almost 40 percentage points. This time around, the red beret-wearing Republican believes ...
It's tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California's Central Valley. She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years after she illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico...
The Trump administration has agreed to release $184 million for AmeriCorps, the federal agency for service and volunteerism, after a coalition of 22 attorneys general and two governors sued in April. The coalition, including New Jersey Attorney...
The hundreds of protesters outside the Trump Tower in Manhattan on Monday rallying for an end to the subminimum wage for tipped workers were among millions across the country who took to the streets on Labor Day. The Fifth Avenue rally was...
Since its inception in February 2023, the Worker Protection Unit at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has recovered and disbursed $1.3 million in wages from about 50 workers whose bosses knowingly underpaid them. For the lawyers and investigators, their work, unfortunately, goes on ...
Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani seemed at ease as he made his way from a high-rise apartment building to a street festival in the historic Black neighborhood of Harlem on a recent Sunday. His reason for being there was clear: While he won the...
New Jersey may be among the states most affected by the hiring slowdown that enraged President Donald Trump when it appeared in an Aug. 1 jobs report showing the United States had 258,000 fewer jobs than initially reported in May and June. Such...
Unions and workers are “under attack” from the Trump administration, the president of the AFL-CIO said in her annual State of the Unions address last week. But Liz Shuler pledged that “working people are going to save ourselves.” Looking forward...
Foreign born workers in New York City are more likely to be union members than workers born in the United States, according to a report published in August by CUNY scholars Ruth Milkman and Joseph van der Naald. The report, The State of The Unions...
From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday with activist roots is celebrated on the first Monday of...
Two city correction officers suffered deep cuts following a slashing attack Wednesday afternoon by a notoriously violent inmate being held on murder charges at a Rikers Island jail. One of the officers needed 17 stitches to close a deep and...
Top officials at New York City’s largest public pension fund told an advocate for 9/11 first responders that the fund’s board of trustees will reconsider a policy change made in January that eliminated retirees’ ability to appeal...
Members of the New York State Professional Fire Fighters Association reelected former Albany firefighter Sam Fresnia as president of the organization representing more than 18,000 workers in municipal fire departments across the state. Fresnia...
New York City has issued its first-ever permit for driverless-vehicle testing, and while the trial will last just a few weeks, one union official warned that the conveyances would wreak havoc...