Philip Ronnie Shpiller retired from his 30-year career with the city as an emergency-response plumber with the New York City Transit Authority in 2012. But in a very real sense, the work never left him. Shpiller and dozens of his colleagues...
Union leaders gathered outside of City Hall last week to deride what they say are the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education through withholding federal funds earmarked for university coffers, cuts to research funding and deportation...
A New York State Supreme Court judge has permitted a plan that would offer in-person voting options in the United Federation of Teachers’ upcoming election, the union announced last week. Although it is expected that the majority of votes will be...
Federal Social Security employees are retiring early, accepting voluntary resignation offers, being arbitrarily reassigned to different apartments, facing harsher consequences for infractions and are being forced to work in person every day...
Elie William, a 45-year electrical assistant working on a construction site at the Waldorf Astoria, was the first worker to die in New York City this year. The construction worker, who fell 40 feet through a hole from a suspended catwalk, died...
Law and order it was not. A longtime talent agent fleeced $1.8 million from dozens of struggling actors he was representing to reap the good life, including through opulent spa treatments and luxury Italian couture, the office of Manhattan...
Therapists, nurses and other educators in the city’s public school system are sick of having to wait months and even years to be reimbursed for travel and coursework expenses. Members of the United Federation of Teachers rallied near the...
Within a day of the union announcing its endorsement of Council Speaker Adrienne Adams for Mayor, District Council 37 had printed out dozens of pro-Adams signs and marshalled Attorney General Letitia James and two other unions - UNITE HERE Local...
District Council 37 endorsed Speaker Adrienne Adams, Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani and State Senator Zellnor Myrie for mayor in a ranked slate of three candidates this week. The city’s largest union of municipal workers by membership, DC 37’s...
Three City Council members are taking another crack at trying to solve the FDNY’s persistent issue ofexclusion of and discrimination against Black and female firefighters by introducing a bill that would expand the Department of Investigation’s...
A chorus of criticism from unions and state officials followed the Trump administration’s immediate halt last week to the build-out of Empire Wind 1, the wind farm off the southwest coast of Long Island that had already generated more than 1,000...
Home health care nurses at CenterLight Healthcare have settled a contract that restores the workers health insurance coverage, averting a planned strike, their union announced last week. Earlier this month, the nurses submitted a strike notice to...
All but one of the seven candidates for mayor who assembled at the CUNY Graduate Center to debate health care and other topics were adamant on the topic of most interest to attendees: Municipal retirees must be able to keep the health care...
One of the slates opposing the long-term leadership of the United Federation of Teachers has filed a lawsuit alleging that a change allowing in-person voting in the union’s upcoming election wasn't permitted under the union's constitution. The...
The union representing New York City Transit supervisors is suing the MTA and the city’s Department of Finance over what union leadership says are unfair and illegal fines issued to members parking city vehicles in bus lanes, busways or bus stops...
Black and female workers are leaving the city workforce at disproportionate rates – and members of the City Council want to know why. Although 32 percent of the city workers are Black, they represented 39 percent of the workers who separated from...
Members of public sector unions in New York City can decertify their union or change the union representing them after three years without a contract following a settlement reached between the city and state labor boards this month. In...
A former Rikers correction officer has been sentenced to six months in prison for her role in a narcotics-smuggling scheme at the penal island. Ghislaine Barrientos, of Mount Vernon, had pleaded guilty in January federal bribery charges for...
NJ Transit locomotive engineers have rejected a tentative contract deal in a dispute over wages, setting the stage for a possible strike next month. Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen voted overwhelmingly against the...
After nearly two months on strike, workers at two Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations reached an agreement with management that cancels the layoffs of 70 employees and allows striking workers to return to work. Members of United Auto Workers...
After nearly two years of hard bargaining, the union representing NYPD sergeants and the city have chiseled a tentative contract agreement. The retroactive 5-year deal, which will be put to a vote of the Sergeants Benevolent Association's rank...
Show them the money. Members of the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY are frustrated that, three months after ratifying their contract, they still haven’t received their ratification bonuses, retroactive pay or raises. PSC members voted to...
The more than 2,000 state correction officers fired by Governor Kathy Hochul for taking part in an illegal wildcat strike earlier this year would be given an opportunity to get their jobs back, according to legislation introduced by two Upstate...
Hundreds of workers who deliver beer to bars, restaurants and other food and drink establishments could go on strike this week, their union announced Monday. About 600 delivery workers at Manhattan Beer & Beverage Distributors who distribute...
The city public school system will hire more than 3,700 new teachers in order to reduce class sizes, Mayor Eric Adams and union leaders representing educators announced last week. Since 2022, the city public school system has been under a mandate...
