Most had come from Romania, Russia, Austria or Italy. Some had been in New York only a few months, even weeks. All toiled inside one of the city’s most notorious sweatshops, on the top three floors …
Calling the right to strike a crucial mechanism for securing fair contracts, the Transport Workers Union of America and TWU Local 100 have enlisted lawmakers in a bid to amend state law and …
Amid a recent wave of violence near schools, the city Independent Budget Office found that the number of school safety agents has dropped 24 percent since the start of the pandemic. There were about …
New York has made progress towards closing the gender pay gap but still has work to do, a report from the governor’s office released on Equal Pay Day indicated.The state’s gender pay gap for …
The state and city university systems are facing “desperate financial conditions” and need additional funding for operating expenses, better faculty-to-student ratios and other proposals in the …
Most mornings, Steve Franey arrives at the UPS fulfillment center in the Suffolk County hamlet of Farmingville at 3:30 a.m. for the start of his eight-hour shift. His workdays are typically split …
Three former Rikers Island correction officers who collected paychecks while feigning illness or injury to stay off the job while the island penal compound plunged into chaos have pleaded guilty to …
A coalition of labor advocates, elected officials and workers rallied in Albany on International Women’s Day to demand state legislators pass a series of bills that would especially help low-income …
About 500 food service workers in cafeterias at the Federal Reserve of New York, Bloomberg Media, BNP Paribas bank, Benjamin Moore and five other locations in New York and New Jersey have voted to …
The city’s long-stalled, contentious effort to switch municipal retirees to a Medicare Advantage plan cleared a significant hurdle Thursday when the agreement was overwhelmingly endorsed by a vote …
On Sunday morning, FDNY firefighters responded to yet another fire caused by an exploded lithium-ion battery, the 31 st so far this year. The five-alarm fire started, video released by the FDNY …
The city’s public hospital nurses, who are seeking a contract that will provide salaries equal to their private-sector counterparts, are hoping to enforce a clause from a previous agreement to …
As part of its previous contract, the Professional Staff Congress was able to raise the minimum pay for adjuncts at the City University of New York to $5,500 per course. With that 2019 labor …
Insisting that their labor is no less legitimate or indispensable than that of other professions, a coalition of sex workers have joined with lawmakers to push for legislation that would …
Since the city’s vaccine mandate was lifted last month, some municipal workers who were terminated for declining to comply with the directive say that officials have been slow to provide clarity …
More than 150 NYU professors gathered near Washington Square Park last week for the second time in as many weeks to announce that they’ve asked NYU leadership to voluntarily recognize their union …
The FDNY has been threatened with yet another racial discrimination lawsuit, this time from the National Association of Hispanic Firefighters, which is alleging that the department hasn’t done …
Norman Seabrook, the former head of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association who began a nearly five-year prison term in May 2021 following his conviction on a federal wire fraud charge and a …
While unions representing municipal workers applauded the tentative contract agreement reached between the city and District Council 37, the state comptroller’s office projected that the city’s …
Workers engaged in 417 strikes in 2022, a year-over-year increase of more than 50 percent, with the number of workers participating in work stoppages rising 60 percent compared with 2021, researchers …
To address the high rate of unemployment among 16-to-24 year-olds in New York City, the City Council has proposed legislation that would require the city to create a yearlong mentorship initiative …
Nearly 380 employees at the city Human Resources Administration filed a lawsuit earlier this month over unpaid overtime and are seeking back pay. The eligibility specialists, who verify whether …
Book editors, sales associates, designers, marketers and other workers at the publishing giant HarperCollins were to return to their office in lower Manhattan Tuesday with a new contract that …
The city and District Council 37 have reached a tentative contract agreement that includes 16.21 percent raises over the span of a 65-month period and establishes a committee set to explore telework …
FDNY EMTs and paramedics took 35 more seconds to travel to the scene of medical emergencies during the four-month period ending in October than they did a year earlier, according to the recently …