NYC Health + Hospitals officials said a significant investment in its professional development and staff engagement for its nurses has led the turnover rate so far this year to plummet to 7.3 percent from last year’s 15.3 percent, and to...
Against the backdrop of roaring jets, airport service workers gathered outside Terminal A at LaGuardia Airport last week to demand that their employer, Alliance Ground International, address what they said are unsafe working conditions,...
Offering deferred resignation agreements, firing provisional employees, introducing speech restrictions, mandating staffers work in person, cancelling collective bargaining agreements covering tens of thousands of workers and eliminating...
The NYPD marked a milestone this week with the department swearing-in 1,093 recruits, the biggest class of new officers to join the department since January 2016. The large class of recruits comes as a relief for NYPD, which has struggled...
Representatives with the United Coal Workers of America have condemned a federal court’s decision to continue delaying the implementation of a federal rule to lower coal miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust, calling the pushback “bureaucratic...
Before the mayor of San Jose, California, arrives at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new business, his aides ask ChatGPT to help draft some talking points. "Elected officials do a tremendous amount of public speaking," said Mayor Matt Mahan,...
Medicare Advantage — a type of Medicare plan administered by private companies as opposed to the federal government — has come under fire in recent years for denying and delaying seniors’ access to certain care. James Russell, a former...
Amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrant graduate students and faculty, unions representing academic workers are pushing universities to step up and protect their members. At New York University, the union representing around 930...
A former New York City Department of Education business manager who went on to consult for the DOE has been sentenced to six months in prison after admitting he rigged bids on contracts at nearly 30 schools, siphoning more than $140,000 from the...
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed bipartisan legislation creating a $500 million tax credit program for manufacturing businesses in a bid to expand in-state manufacturing and spur job creation, with a focus on clean energy industries. Murphy...
The head of the faculty and staff union at the City University of New York has called on Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez to immediately address what he described as the chronic problem of adjunct professors receiving their paychecks late at the...
With new calls to ban the historic horse-carriage industry operating out of Central Park, drivers find themselves defending their practice against animal abuse accusations and legislation that could put them out of work.
Hundreds of nurses gathered at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel last week to begin their fight for more equitable contracts with New York City’s private-sector hospitals...
Workers at GrowNYC ratified their first ever collective bargaining agreement last week after two years of bargaining with management at the environmental not-for-profit. The three year contract covering over 100 workers includes provisions to improve...
Full-career FDNY firefighters and fire officers who retired last year were eligible to average annual pensions of $171,336, up 13 percent from the prior year, according to data crunched by the open-government group Empire Center. Among 430...
Hot Girls for Zohran, Latinos for Zohran, Gays for Zohran and Service Workers for Zohran are just some of the many grassroots affinity groups created this year to support Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani in the democratic primary for mayor....
On the 90th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act, lawmakers and union leaders are trying to protect Americans’ Social Security benefits and the employees who run the Social Security...
In a blistering response to Mayor Eric Adams’ vetoes of City Council bills that would have boosted the pay and protections of delivery workers, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams accused the mayor of turning his back on the working class and cozying...
A $14.4 million outlay in state Workforce Development Awards will bolster teacher training programs at State University of New York and City University of New York campuses and private colleges, Governor Kathy Hochul announced last...
Hundreds of workers who cleaned the city’s subways during the pandemic’s height will receive $3 million in back pay under a settlement with two companies secured by City Comptroller Brad Lander. Nearly 400 workers were not paid a prevailing wage...
Amid a lengthy contract spat with a union representing student workers, Columbia University has started eliminating dozens of teaching positions held by union members. The Student Workers of Columbia union has been attempting to bargain for a new...
Outside of the Museum of Chinese in America, a group of community members and workers as part of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown hold tattered cardboard signs, worn from use over the years. “MOCA is selling out Chinatown!” they shout,...
The all-female ambulance corps serving Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is adding a second ambulance, a move Ezras Nashim’s leaders are hopeful will increase its ability to answer calls for emergency medical care and cut down on response...
City lifeguards who testified in the judicial trial of Peter Stein – the longtime president of the lifeguard supervisor's union – say they’re facing retaliation at the hands of Stein’s former deputies who now run the union. Stein retired from the...
Union leaders are lambasting the Department of Veterans Affairs’ cancellation of most VA employees’ collective bargaining agreements as inherently un-American and a reflection of the administration’s anti-union agenda. Nearly 400,000 workers at...