Although the city has projected that there will be 400,000 green jobs by 2040 as part of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions, job growth in the green economy has been slowed by several challenges, according to a recent report. The study...
2025 is “Fire Prevention Year,” Mayor Eric Adams and FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker declared last week, marking 100 years since the inception of National Fire Prevention Week. President Calvin Coolidge formally created National Fire Prevention...
The City Comptroller has won settlements that recovered $525,152.20 in unpaid prevailing wages with four building and construction contractors, his office announced Thursday. Comptroller Brad Lander announced that his office reached a settlement...
New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander announced his “Workers’ Rights Platform” on Thursday, promising that as mayor he would push to raise the minimum wage, expand just cause protections, guarantee workers’ more time off,...
Challengers in the upcoming elections for the United Federation of Teachers are calling for a new direction in the union. Next Monday marks the deadline for receipt of nominations, where longtime president Michael Mulgrew will face-off...
“It’s been the job of a lifetime,” says Catherine Rinaldi, Metro-North’s first female president, who is set to retire at the end of the month. “It’s been just such an honor and a privilege to be able to lead this amazing organization … these...
Three former Rikers corrections officers, an inmate and others connected to the island penal colony have been sentenced to prison terms for conspiring to smuggle fentanyl, marijuana and other contraband in exchange for thousands of dollars in...
Although the headcount of municipal employees in the city has rebounded since the pandemic, some agencies have sustained staffing reductions, the city’s Independent Budget Office found in a recent report. For years, the number of full-time city...
Jo Anne Cloughly, a professor of culinary arts at SUNY Cobleskill in upstate New York, considers watching young people learn and grow to be the best thing about working in the food industry. As a culinary and agricultural retail educator, she...
Brooklyn Museum management and District Council 37 reached an agreement that will delay the planned layoffs of dozens of workers, the union announced in a press release Monday. The deal will allow dozens of workers who are facing layoffs to...
New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weeks-long wildcat strike that crippled the state's correctional system, but said enough officers had come back on the job to declare the illegal work...
Amid efforts by the state to recruit terminated federal workers, city employees who were terminated for refusing to get the Covid vaccine called on the governor to reinstate them. In an open letter to Governor Kathy Hochul published Friday, New...
“We were here,” MTA bus operator Re’gan Weal told the Manhattan Borough Historian Robert Snyder in March 2023. “We were here risking our lives, our families, while everyone else was home. I would just like people to remember that we were...
A former Nassau County detective who carried out a sham police operation to shut down a mob-run gambling parlor on behalf of a rival Mafia crew has been convicted following a federal jury trial of lying to FBI agents. Hector Rosario,...
Workers at three Barnes & Noble locations in New York City have ratified a contract with the bookstore chain on Thursday that includes codified wage increases, union health care coverage and a host of new safety measures. With...
The dozens of Sesame Workshop employees who gathered in a small park near Lincoln Center Tuesday morning could hardly contain their excitement. Moments before the 10:30 gathering, 60 workers at the non-profit behind 'Sesame Street' had...
They snooze in parking garages, on side streets before the afternoon school run, in nap pods rented by the hour or stretched out in bed while working from home. People who make a habit of sleeping on the job comprise a secret society of sorts...
A wildcat strike by New York state prison guards stretched into a third week Monday, prompting officials to start firing workers for failing to abide by a deal to end the illegal labor action. The state's homeland security commissioner, Jackie...
A former superintendent at the city Housing Authority was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after she pled guilty to taking more than $50,000 in bribes in exchange for approving contracts over $500,000. Joy Harris,...
Amid a budget crunch at cultural institutions citywide, management at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced Friday afternoon that it would lay off 20 workers. The layoffs, which affect members of United Auto Workers Local 2110, come three...
James Tempro ran into the burning Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building before he was able to get water through his hose and onto the fire. During what would later be called one of the worst blazes of 1968, Tempro helped clear the home’s occupants...
Nurses at NYU Langone-Brooklyn have ratified a contract that provides 15.8 percent compounded raises and averts a strike that was set to start Saturday. The nurses, who submitted a strike notice to NYU Langone-Brooklyn’s management on Feb. 18,...
Postdoctoral workers at Weill Cornell Medicine, who have been in negotiations for their first contract for nearly a year, demanded that the institution settle a contract that provides protections for immigrant workers and parents. The...
At times, the focus at the District Council 37 mayoral forum on Tuesday was more on the candidates not in the room than the six answering questions on stage. Mayor Eric Adams had been expected to attend – which would have been his first time at a...
With wildcat strikes by state prison correctional officers ongoing at prisons statewide this week, officials engaged in discussions with the union representing the COs Monday regarding a number of demands officers want met to quell what they say...