New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike early Friday, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home. The walkout comes after the latest...
Unions representing FDNY firefighters and fire officers endorsed Former Governor Andrew Cuomo for Mayor on Tuesday, following in the footsteps of two unions representing members of FDNY EMS. Leadership of the Uniformed Firefighters Association and...
A second former chief in the FDNY’s Bureau of Fire Prevention has been sentenced to prison for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for expediting building inspections, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Anthony...
Record numbers of retirements and departures, recruitment issues, calls to defund, lingering questions about justice, enforcement. Police departments nationwide have contended with those issues since the killing of George Floyd by...
Overall crime citywide dropped for the seventh straight month in April, contributing to a roughly 8-percent drop in index crimes through the first four months of the year compared with 2024, according to NYPD data. So-called “index crimes”...
A union representing lawyers, paralegals and other workers at legal organizations in New York is the target of a new federal complaint alleging the union failed in its duty to represent Jewish members. But members of the union at the New York...
New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a federal judge found the city had failed to stem spiraling dysfunction and brutality against those in custody. Instead, U.S....
The National Labor Relations Board has filed a petition in a federal court seeking an injunction in which it alleged that the non-profit Covenant House New York has refused to bargain in good faith with employees who unionized nearly three years...
District Council 37, the city’s largest public-sector union, has once again gone on the offensive against City Council members opposed to switching municipal retirees to a privately administered health plan. According to minutes of a March...
With the enforcement of street vendors significantly increasing in recent years as the number of permits and licenses available has barely inched higher, members of the City Council are weighing legislation that would lift the cap on licenses over...
A former superintendent at the city Housing Authority has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for demanding $30,000 in bribes in exchange for granting $400,000 in contracts. Hector Colon, 47, who worked as a superintendent at several NYCHA...
The FDNY plans to further “integrate” its EMS and firefighting services by unifying the administration of both and bringing “critical resources” to beleaguered EMTs, paramedics and EMS officers, the department explained in its 2025 strategic plan....
A group of Local 3005 members who last year passed a motion calling for their pensions to be divested from Israeli stocks and bonds are now seeking to oust the union’s leadership in elections this month. The ‘Rank and File Voices’ slate is running...
When Department of Sanitation workers went on strike in February 1968, Harry Nespoli state hard at work. On the gridiron. Nespoli, who had graduated from John Jay High School in Brooklyn a few years earlier, had gone to Kansas State, where...
NYPD sergeants have overwhelmingly approved a 5-year contract, concluding a drawn-out effort by city and union officials to secure a deal for the roughly 4,400 cops in the supervisory title. The retroactive agreement will net sergeants who were...
A group of workers who clean Con Edison buildings secured their first ever union contract this week, a 5-year agreement for around 100 workers unionized with Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union. The union reached an agreement...
Following a series of robberies, stabbings and killings inside city bodegas that had workers at the small groceries concerned for their safety and that of their customers, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that the city would fund the installation...
George Gresham, who has served as president of the Service Employees International Union Local 1199 since 2007, was defeated by challenger Yvonne Armstrong in the union’s recent election. More than 38,000 members of the union cast ballots....
Mayor Eric Adams announced a pilot program that will help city employees enroll in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The city has partnered with Summer, an organization aimed at providing student loan and education assistance, to assist city...
More than 2,000 workers will receive $4 million in restitution from four businesses – including Halal Guys and Petco – that violated the city’s fair workweek law and paid sick leave law. The city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection...
Foley Square was once again the site of a massive gathering of workers and union leaders celebrating May Day, International Workers Day, on May 1. Whereas last year's event drew thousands of workers calling for a cease-fire in the conflict in...
Philip Ronnie Shpiller retired from his 30-year career with the city as an emergency-response plumber with the New York City Transit Authority in 2012. But in a very real sense, the work never left him. Shpiller and dozens of his colleagues...
Union leaders gathered outside of City Hall last week to deride what they say are the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education through withholding federal funds earmarked for university coffers, cuts to research funding and deportation...
A New York State Supreme Court judge has permitted a plan that would offer in-person voting options in the United Federation of Teachers’ upcoming election, the union announced last week. Although it is expected that the majority of votes will be...
Federal Social Security employees are retiring early, accepting voluntary resignation offers, being arbitrarily reassigned to different apartments, facing harsher consequences for infractions and are being forced to work in person every day...