When a patient walks into a New York City hospital and speaks no English, or when a resident calls 911 in a language other than their own, it falls to a LanguageLine Solutions interpreter to bridge the gap. Many of these interpreters are now...
Calls for accountability over a violent arrest captured on video in Brooklyn are colliding with sharp pushback from police union leaders, as elected officials — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Member Oswald Feliz — denounce what they...
The city’s five pension funds will invest $4 billion in affordable housing and preservation over the next four years Comptroller Mark Levine announced Wednesday. The NYC Housing Investment Initiative seeks to finance new mixed-income, workforce...
The workers tasked with caring for some of New York's most vulnerable patients — nurses, emergency department staff and psychiatric providers — were left without adequate policies, training or resources to safely manage mental health crises,...
A years-long strategy by the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority to phase out the Superior Officers Benevolent Association — a unionized, civil-service-protected workforce — replacing it with non-union labor and alternative agencies, while...
The World Trade Center Health program’s understaffing has stalled grant funding, delayed program enrollment and halted the certifications of new conditions to be covered by the program the FDNY’s top doctor told The Chief in an interview earlier...
Local 1113 is the latest public-sector union in New York City whose members voted to pass a resolution calling for their pensions to be divested from Israeli stocks and bonds. The small union of around 725 investigators and finance employees...
On Thursday, April 9, a former NYPD sergeant was sentenced to at least three years in prison after killing a food delivery driver he struck with a cooler during a Bronx drug operation. The sentencing has drawn fierce criticism from the city's law...
The high-stakes dispute over a City Council bill that would fundamentally reshape the relationship Amazon has with tens of thousands of last-mile delivery workers in the city was shown in stark relief on Thursday when workers and employers held...
Under a federal administration that’s battled unions and stripped rights away from immigrants, domestic and care workers find themselves under attack from multiple different directions. Because of increased fear of detention and...
Before Stu Goldberg begins his night shift driving for Uber, he pulls out a notebook to read a handwritten list of reminders. "No tickets. Full stops," he'd scrawled in the book. "Careful backing up. Watch for pedestrians and bikes." With a Ph.D...
ProPublica, the national nonprofit newsroom, boasts a mission of holding power to account. This week, its employees say they’re directing that mission at the company itself. Around 150 members of the ProPublica Guild, the union representing...
A long-vacant newsstand outside of City Hall has been transformed into the country’s first “deliverista hub,” a service and rest stop for NYC’s 80,000 app-based delivery workers. The hub, which was unveiled at a ceremony on April 7, will...
Ballots for the election of leadership in Local 2507, a union that represents the FDNY’s EMTs, paramedics and fire protection inspectors, were mailed out last week in the midst's of the union’s negotiations with the city for a new contract. The...
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. If you were in Albany on March 8, you might have felt the ground shake under your feet as 15,000...
Two pension reforms proposed by the City Council last week that would have the city reamortize its pension funds and issue pension obligation bonds, while saving the city over $1 billion this year, could burden the city with several billion...
As the skyline climbs and rents hit record highs, residential building workers who clean, repair and secure New York City's apartment buildings represent the critical contradiction between the city’s livability crisis and a thriving real estate...
On April 6, Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his inaugural “True Cost of Living” plan, an effort to quantify what it actually takes to live in New York City and to ground his campaign promise of making the city more livable for working people. The...
The state’s revived 9/11 Worker Protection panel met for the first time in February, but representatives for sanitation and EMS workers, hundreds of whom have died of World Trade Center Illnesses, were not invited to participate. The panel’s first...
A former New York City Department of Buildings supervisor has been indicted on bribery charges after allegedly accepting more than $75,000 in cash and other benefits from three construction industry insiders in exchange for fast-tracking permit...
After delaying its response 10 times, the city has declined to release documents that reveal what the city knew about the toxins found over ground zero in the months after 9/11 attacks, claiming that no such documents could be found In...
Workers, union leaders and politicians rallied on the steps of City Hall Monday to call for increased funding for the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), which investigates exploitative labor practices and enforces worker...
The FDNY broke the law when it diverted 82 fire cadets into EMS trainee roles after they graduated, an administrative law judge ruled last week. In an Article 78 administrative petition filed shortly after former FDNY commissioner...
Two men died while in custody at Rikers Island within the span of a week, adding urgency to an already fraught debate over the future of New York City's troubled jail complex. Barry Cozart, 39, was found unresponsive by a correction officer at...
New York City will open applications April 30 for its first free, on-site child care pilot for municipal workers, a program city officials say is aimed at easing the financial and logistical burdens facing working parents. Announced by Mayor...