Lucy Calderon was preparing for her family’s Christmas celebration Dec. 19 when she got notice that, effective immediately, she would no longer be employed at her $31-an-hour union job cleaning …
Mayor Eric Adams’ preliminary budget, released last week, reflects some tough choices. It includes funding cuts in early childhood education and for libraries, for CUNY and for city several …
Thirty city public school employees accused last spring of submitting fraudulent Covid vaccine cards received return-to-service letters Jan. 11 after a state Supreme Court judge ordered that they …
Killings and shootings dropped considerably citywide in 2022, even as overall major crime climbed 22 percent compared with a year earlier. The increases stemmed from spikes in grand larcenies and …
More than 7,000 nurses at two New York City hospitals were in the third day of a strike Wednesday with no breakthrough yet on the nurses’ demands for better pay and increased staffing.Although the …
Retired municipal workers will be deprived of choice if the City Council doesn’t sanction a change to the administrative code that allows the city to charge the retirees for a portion of their …
The City Council will weigh legislation that would require city agencies to conduct exit interviews with retiring and resigning municipal employees. As the city faces a vacancy rate that has …
Unions representing New York’s uniformed emergency medical technicians, paramedics and EMS officers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the city and the FDNY alleging “discriminatory …
Hennessy, pulse-pounding tunes and lap dances. All are prevalent in the city’s gentlemen’s clubs. Until a few weeks ago, they were also part of evenings and nights inside a UPS Customer …
After months of inaction and despite pronounced opposition from retired municipal workers, the City Council appears poised to consider changing the city’s administrative code to permit the …
The head of the Westchester County Correction Officers' Benevolent Association has denounced Governor Kathy Hochul’s veto of a bill that would have granted lump-sum benefits to the families of county jail staff who work past retirement eligibility but die before retiring.
Workers at HarperCollins Publishers entered 2023 still on strike, more than 40 days after about 250 employees at the publishing giant walked out when contract negotiations broke down in …
Family, friends and fellow firefighters assembled in St. Patrick’s R.C. Church in Bay Shore, Long Island, Thursday to bid their final goodbyes to FDNY Firefighter William P. Moon II, remembering …
Municipal retirees battling the city’s proposed shift to a private Medicare plan for its 250,000 retired workers have a prominent ally in the City Council. In a lengthy note she appended to a …
The City Council has released a long-awaited report to its staffers on the body’s Equal Employment Opportunity policies that include recommendations on how the Council can better combat harassment …
Nurses are fed up: more than 16,000 who work at private hospitals across the city and whose contracts are set to expire at the end of this month have voted to authorize a strike.Nearly 99 percent of …
Most employers across New York state must include a salary range within job postings starting next fall following pay transparency legislation recently signed into law by Governor Kathy …
TWU Local 100 officials sharply criticized what the MTA has described as “service adjustments” to several subway lines planned for next year. The suggested changes would add wait times from …
A veteran FDNY firefighter who was critically injured Dec. 12 when he fell from inside his Crown Heights firehouse was taken off of life support on Monday. William P. Moon II was preparing for a …
Tony Utano, who had just graduated high school when he began his NYC Transit career as an electrical helper and started ascending through the ranks at Transport Workers Union of America Local 100 …
Home-health aides, advocate groups and elected officials last week kicked off a campaign demanding raises for home-care workers, who are among the lowest paid workers in the state. The state is …
Young workers in New York City — especially young men — are still struggling to recover from Covid-related job losses, according to a recent report from the state comptroller’s office.The …
At a City Council hearing last week spotlighting recent outages in the FDNY’s dispatching system, union leaders turned the focus to the beleaguered workers tasked with taking calls and dispatching …
In an expected, but nonetheless significant outcome, an arbitrator has determined that the city must switch more than 250,000 retired municipal workers to a cost-saving, private-sector Medicare …
The former president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council and 10 other ex-union officials admitted in federal court to selling out their members in exchange for hefty bribes …