The Department of Correction, exempt from a hiring freeze because of its status as a public safety agency, is in the midst of hiring more than 1,000 officers to staff Rikers Island jails.  But …

Budget cuts imposed by the Adams administration are completely unnecessary — that was the resounding message members of the City Council, union leaders and community advocates sent during and ahead …

Declaring the city’s regulations governing sidewalk vendors stale, convoluted and even ruthless, the City Council has drawn up legislation its sponsors said would promote equitable opportunity for …

The city will hire 135 new school safety agents weeks after a 250-person class was scrapped — and just days following violent incidents at several public schools.  The new class began their …

An NYPD officer who helped her gangbanger boyfriend evade a murder rap and members of a violent Bronx street gang to elude capture pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of obstructing an …

Scabby the Rat made an appearance outside City Hall on Wednesday, standing alongside City Council staffers demanding a first contract.  The inflatable rodent’s appearance marked the fifth …

Hundreds of postdoctoral researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have gone on strike after their year-long fight for their first contract reached an impasse. Members of the Sinai …

The head of the Uniformed Firefighters Association sounded the alarm Monday regarding the removal this weekend of a fifth firefighter from 20 engine companies citywide. Andy Ansbro, the UFA's …

A former NYPD officer faces up to 20 years in prison after admitting his participation in a massive drug trafficking operation that eventually imported hundreds of kilos of cocaine from Mexico and …

Sanitation workers have ratified a 50-month deal that will bring them raises of nearly 19 percent over the life of the agreement. Of the 3,124 members of Teamsters Local 831, the Uniformed …

About 20,000 commercial office cleaners in the city are poised to walk off the job following what their union has called untenable proposed changes to their existing labor agreement.  According …

A state appeals court justice upheld the city’s minimum wage law for app-based restaurant delivery workers, whose pay will now increase to $17.96 per hour. In June, the Adams administration …

John Samuelsen, the international president of the Transport Workers of America, resigned in protest from the panel tasked with issuing congestion-pricing proposals hours before it issued its final …

Members of the Professional Staff Congress and education advocates rallied Saturday for a contract and increased funding for the City University of New York and railed against continuing cuts to the …

The city’s yellow cab drivers will have to dish out $1.25 for every trip they make into Manhattan below 60th Street, according to the most recent congestion pricing proposal, a fee the New York …

Monsignor John Delendick, who as an FDNY chaplain for nearly 28 years guided firefighters and their families through the aftermath of 9/11, was honored and remembered at a funeral Mass on Friday at …

City Comptroller Brad Lander wants to expand his office’s ability to hold unscrupulous employers accountable for illegal wage theft, retaliation and other forms of worker exploitation by broadening …

Amid a surge in students from families seeking asylum, the city public school system is looking to address a shortage of bilingual educators while members of the City Council and other advocates are …

Whether it’s the flooding of basement apartments in the outer boroughs, deadly blizzards in Buffalo, heatwaves on Long Island or wildfire smoke blanketing skies across the state, New Yorkers have …

Later this month, more than 600 police officer recruits will conclude their academy training and join the NYPD. If convention is any guide, the rookie cops’ first assignment will be to patrol Times …

The nation’s wildland firefighters have once more been left to hang.  Although the roughly 19,000 federal firefighters last year received substantial pay bumps of either $20,000 or 50 percent …

A city law barring discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on an individual’s weight or height took effect last week and was universally praised by members of the City …

Months after 300 workers at a trading card retailer owned by eBay voted to unionize, the e-commerce giant removed language from its human rights policy statement that committed the company to honor …

Postdoctoral workers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who have been in negotiations for a first contract for more than a year, have set a Dec. 6 strike date. The Sinai Postdoctoral …

New Yorkers will endure immediate reductions to library and sanitation services, have access to less preschool spots and see fewer cops on patrol in the coming months, according to city officials’ …