New York City was still climbing out of the Great Recession when the Resorts World casino opened in Jamaica, Queens, in 2011. Rich Maroko, the president of the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, remembers tens of thousands of desperate candidates...

President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce have gutted the ranks of wildland firefighters and support personnel, fire professionals warn, leaving communities to face deadly consequences when big blazes arrive this...

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with DoorDash Monday that will see the company pay nearly $17 million to delivery workers in New York City. James’ office found that the company engaged in deceptive pay practices...

Thousands of workers will receive $2.6 million in restitution after five large employers, including Starbucks, were found to have violated the city’s paid sick and fair workweek laws, in addition to other labor law violations, the Adams...

A staffing company that failed to pay prevailing wages must pay more than $644,000 to dozens of clerical employees who worked at several medical facilities across the city, according to a settlement announced by the City Comptroller’s...

John Chiarello, who was reelected TWU Local 100’s secretary-treasurer in December, will fill out the rest of Richard Davis’ term as head of  the city’s largest transport workers’ union. Chiarello, 58, a signal maintainer by trade, was...

Nurses at NYU Langone-Brooklyn seeking a new contract agreement submitted a 10-day strike notice to the hospital’s management Tuesday night, according to their union. The pact covering 1,000 nurses at the hospital is set to expire Feb. 28. The...

Governor Kathy Hochul said she would deploy National Guard troops to restore and ensure order in at least two dozen state prisons where correction officers have been engaged in unsanctioned — and illegal — work stoppages and walkouts since earlier...

A year ago, FDNY Firefighter John Gayson began making plans to achieve an ambitious personal goal: to earn a coveted “360” sticker from the New York State Canal Corporation by kayaking the Erie Canalway from Buffalo to...

The Trump administration began firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National...

Home healthcare nurses at CenterLight Healthcare are ramping up their contract campaign, starting a petition and launching an ad campaign to demand the non-profit settle a fair agreement and cease any cuts to the nurses’ healthcare. The 70...

Members of the union representing New York Public Library staff recently dismissed an election protest filed by two candidates, upholding incumbent president Deborah Allman’s win. The election for District Council 37’s Local 1930 officers was...

Michele Fitzsimmons’ grandfather and great-grandfather were FDNY firefighters, the former retiring as a battalion chief after a 36-year career among the city’s Bravest.  But when she brought up the idea of joining the department a few...

The other night at KGB Bar in the East Village, the novelist, screenwriter and former Daily News columnist Denis Hamill recounted how his father’s experiences as a unionized factory worker shaped him as he was growing up. Hamill also reminisced...

  Members of public sector unions in New York City could soon see their right to decertify their unions expanded following a ruling last month in a case between the state agency tasked with administering labor law in the public sector...

Workers across the country responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration 's aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off probationary employees who have...

A supervisor at Horizon Juvenile Center who previously pleaded guilty to assaulting a 16-year-old detainee was sentenced to time served and two years’ post release supervision by a federal judge Thursday. Daquan Seymour, 34, an associate youth...

An FDNY EMT has been arrested on murder and other charges in connection with the April 2021 killing during a robbery attempt of a 22-year-old Queens man as he sat in the driver’s seat of his parked Range Rover in Astoria.  Jordan Hannah,...

The Adams administration has announced a program that will provide job opportunities for 1,500 New Yorkers who are involved in the criminal justice system. The initiative, known as the Community Resources for Employment and Development program,...

A former fraud investigator with the New York City Department of Homeless Services who impersonated homeless people to fraudulently obtain Covid unemployment benefits has been sentenced to 27 months in prison, federal authorities...

Brooklyn Museum management announced Friday that the museum will lay off nearly 50 employees and cut top executive’s salaries in order to prevent the institution’s budget deficits from worsening. Of the 47 employees set to be terminated, 19...

The Day Care Council of New York and the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators have reached a tentative contract agreement on behalf of administrators working at publicly-funded day care centers that includes 33.62 percent in compounded...

The FDNY does not have enough firefighting equipment designed to suppress brush fires to combat the worsening scourge of outdoor blazes, top FDNY officials and leadership of a union representing FDNY fire officers testified at a City Council...

Governor Kathy Hochul is calling for the arrests of state correction officers on criminal charges following autopsy results concluding that the fatal beating of prisoner Robert Brooks was a homicide.  The autopsy found that Brooks was killed...

Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders that closely align with proposals outlined in Project 2025, raising fears about the impact of these policies on workers, especially those in the...