Labor leaders fear their members could be restricted from picketing and demonstrating outside of educational facilities under a bill passed by the City Council on Thursday, unions opposed to the measure warn.   The legislation, Int-175B,...

After eight years of litigation, a group of construction workers finally received the last of their stolen wages — the culmination of a case that began as a simple overtime dispute and unraveled into one of the most elaborate labor exploitation...

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers in 18 minutes. On its 115th anniversary, organized labor gathered to argue that the conditions that made it possible haven't disappeared. Family members, union leaders and public...

A franchisee operating Taco Bell and Dunkin’ locations in the city will pay $1.5 million in restitution to more than 760 workers under a settlement reached with the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection for violations of the city’s...

After a year of bargaining for a first contract, a heated dispute between leadership of the largest union local in the United States and its unionized staff broke out into the open this month when union leadership sent an all-staff email accusing...

Amid a $1.5 billion city budget crunch, unions across the state are backing legislation that could shift the tax burden from away from local municipalities and onto private employers, potentially saving New York City hundreds of millions of...

After more than a year of negotiations and numerous all-night bargaining sessions, NYU contract faculty officially went on strike at 11 a.m. Monday to cheers and the jangle of noisemarkers.  Although progress had been made between the...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani held an iftar dinner for city workers Thursday evening at the The Museum of the City of New York on the 23rd night of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The city's first Muslim Mayor, Mamdani has been hosting iftar events most...

Two pilots aboard an Air Canada regional flight were killed late Sunday night after their plane collided with a Port Authority emergency vehicle on the runway at LaGuardia Airport, officials said, prompting a shutdown of the airport as...

Recent public safety budget hearings reveal the growing rift between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD — one centered on overtime spending and the administration’s push to expand a new Department of Community Safety, representing his desire to...

The WNBA and players union met for nearly 12 hours trying to get a new collective bargaining agreement deal done to start the upcoming season on time. Union executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson said early Wednesday morning, 10 hours after...

As suicide rates in the construction industry continue to outpace on-site fatalities, the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York has launched a peer support initiative aimed at confronting what leaders describe as an...

The increase in FDNY ambulance response times to life-threatening medical emergencies is likely due to a lack of appropriate staffing in the ranks of FDNY EMS, a new Independent Budget Office report found. The audit analyzed city response time...

A New York City correction officer admitted in federal court this week to fabricating injuries in a scheme that made him more than $370,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, authorities said—exposing what investigators describe as a broader...

New York City’s civic service program is back at full capacity and producing following a $3.2 million investment by the administration of former Mayor Eric Adams in September 2025 to sustain the program after the Trump administration took a torch...

Students, faculty and advocates gathered at City Hall on Tuesday to demand the city boost funding and fully staff the City University of New York (CUNY) system. They were joined by Rita Joseph, chair of the city council’s committee on higher...

In a move that deepened tensions between union leaders and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor recently expressed support for a plan to share city employees’ healthcare data with insurers, compromising workers’ privacy in exchange for projected cost...

Leadership of unions representing FDNY EMTs, paramedics and EMS officers once again warned that their low pay is driving first responders out of FDNY EMS, leading to worse response times and improper care for New Yorkers. Speaking at a City...

Since unionizing in 2024, employees at Nitehawk Cinema’s Prospect Park branch have been bargaining for a first contract that would increase worker safety conditions, hourly pay and healthcare benefits; concerns which have yet to be met by...

The city’s Law Department is working to set up an online portal where it will post tens of thousands of documents in the city’s possession from the period after the 9/11 attacks, Steve Banks, the city’s Corporation Counsel overseeing the...

Labor leaders, elected officials and community advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall on March 10 to launch the “$30 for Our City” campaign, backing legislation that would gradually raise New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour. The...

Almost four years after they began bargaining with its unionized employees, management at the outoor equipment retailer REI Co-op has declared an official bargaining impasse and walked away from the negotiating table, workers say.   Last...

Federal prosecutors unveiled felony conspiracy charges against two former NYPD officers accusing the duo of stealing cash and keys from a brothel and then returning hours later to grope and steal money from a sex worker. On a muggy July day...

You were the first woman commissioner of the FDNY, what sort of challenges did you encounter when you started that job? "It's one thing to climb a mountain when you're following a trail, its still really hard, leadership is hard, but when you're not able to follow a trail, and you're trying to get to the top of the mountain, it takes you twice as long..."

For 23 years, Lethimyle “Myle” Cleveland worked the midnight tour in Brooklyn — patrolling in the darkness, answering radio calls and responding to emergencies until the early morning hours. Those long nights on patrol helped shape a career that...