Staffing shortages and associated administrative issues at the World Trade Center Health Program are compromising the care sought and needed by survivors of the 9/11 terror attacks, according to U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles...
Fewer than 22,000 people took the open competitive exam to become anFDNY firefighter this year despite the department sinking $3 million into a recruitment campaign, pushing back the registration timeline and adding more testing dates, according...
Businesses around the country are reevaluating security after a brazen shooting at a New York City office building raised questions about what it takes to keep workplaces safe. The attack on a seemingly secure building — in a gilded part of...
No dice, say a coalition of Queens residents opposed to the construction of Metropolitan Park, Mets owner and billionaire Steve Cohen’s plan to turn 78 acres of parkland in Flushing into a massive casino complex. “The problem with casinos is that...
A federal appellate court has lifted a temporary block on an executive order allowing agencies to end collective bargaining agreements with the majority of federal workers. The panel of three appellate judges in the Ninth Circuit Court last week...
Despite the mass shooting that killed an NYPD officer and three others in Manhattan last week, the city logged the fewest shootings and shooting victims through the year’s first seven months since 1993, when the department began keeping detailed...
Bruce Hydock didn’t want to retire. By the time he hung up his gear for good, FDNY EMS Captain had already survived testicular cancer and lived with a degenerative lung disorder for more than a decade, both attributed to the time he spent at...
Attorneys at the Legal Aid Society last week ratified the tentative agreement they reached with management in a 556 to 383 vote, with 90 percent of Legal Aid Society Attorneys United members participating. The close 59 percent to 41 percent vote...
Mayor Eric Adams has vetoed a City Council bill aimed at decriminalizing certain street vending violations — a move that drew sharp criticism from vendor advocates and elected officials who say the measure is critical to protecting immigrant...
As a youngster growing up in Brooklyn, Anthony Celano received a priceless education that would serve him well as an NYPD member and, later, as a prolific author. Celano’s mother worked nights at Pfizer and his father, Enrico, worked days as a...
The Adams administration is proposing new rules aimed at making app-based delivery services more safe, including by requiring delivery app companies to register with the city Department of Transportation and to provide safety training and...
Officer Didarul Islam was a doting father and a devoted husband, intent on building a life for his family in his adopted city. He was also remembered at his funeral Thursday as a dedicated police officer, who had embarked on a career as a New York...
Lifeguards looking to reform their union that has for decades excluded most members from meetings and elections were welcomed into the union’s first in-season open meeting in decades, three lifeguards who attended the meeting last month said. More...
Seven months ago, Jennifer Rubin had no idea whether she'd make it in a new media world. She just knew it was time to leave The Washington Post, where she'd been a political columnist for 15 years. The Contrarian, the democracy-focused website...
An off-duty NYPD officer was among five people who were shot and killed at a midtown Manhattan office building Monday afternoon, sources told the The Associated Press. The FDNY said emergency crews were called to the Park Avenue office building...
“The greatest victims of imperialist aggression across the world are the labor class.” So said Jae-Kyu Ham, a member of an NGO delegation from South Korea and representative of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). He was...
The president of New York City Transit said Monday that the firm recently tasked to handle workers compensation claims was not as “ready as they should have been,” when taking on the responsibility, leading to delays in payouts for some workers in...
Unions representing staff at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert have decried the show’s cancellation as a move to limit free speech. Although CBS stated that its decision to end The Late Show in May 2026 was “purely financial,” many believed the...
Mayor Eric Adams announced a project that will create 3,000 new homes on the site of the former Flushing Airport and will provide 1,300 unionized construction jobs. Announced Monday as part of Housing Week, construction at the 80-acre site in...
Hundreds of union members marched down billionaires' row in midtown Manhattan Saturday afternoon to protest cuts imposed by the Trump administration through the tax and spending bill – the “big beautiful bill” as its supporters call it – that...
Thousands of New Jersey’s 9/11 responders shut out of World Trade Center-related disability benefits because they did not meet a filing deadline have a chance to reapply for the retirement allowances. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy last week...
Noting that finding and paying for childcare is among the most challenging aspects of life as a police officer and a significant predicament for would-be applicants to the job, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has introduced legislation that would...
Postal service workers gathered in Midtown Manhattan Thursday to oppose a proposal to privatize the United States Postal Service. President Trump has expressed interest in privatizing the USPS, citing financial reasons for doing so. USPS reported...
Frustration reigns among the rank-and-file of the largest organization of legal service workers in New York City. The union representing more than 1,000 workers at the Legal Aid Society announced a tentative agreement with management on...
The nation’s largest regional labor federation has a new, permanent leader. Brendan Griffith was elected this week by acclamation to succeed Vincent Alvarez as president of the New York City Central Labor Council. Griffith, the CLC's...