It's not just students dropping out: schools across the state are facing challenges attracting and retaining teachers. “Too often, when I look around in my school building during my lunch breaks, …

A 13-year wait for Staten Island Ferry workers is over.  The union representing the roughly 120 mariners and the Adams administration carved out an unprecedented 16-year contract, the first such …

City retirees have won in court. They now want the City Council to back them in their bid to keep their existing health benefits.  The organization driving the resistance to the Adams …

New York City's police department has agreed to adopt new policies intended to safeguard the rights of protesters as part of a legal settlement stemming from its response to the Black Lives Matter …

The establishment of unions at Starbucks locations, Amazon warehouses and Trader Joe’s grocery stores has drawn national attention in recent months. But quietly, recent unionization efforts among …

Workers at the Trader Joe’s on the Lower East Side who lost their bid to unionize following a tie vote in April are vying for a second chance to bargain collectively under a new standard handed …

Labor Day is here, along with the big sales and barbecues that come with it. But the activist roots of the holiday are especially visible this year as unions challenge how workers are treated — …

A candidate challenging the incumbent president of District Council 37’s Local 372 has raised concerns that the imminent rerun of the local’s officer election will have too few voting sites. On …

Life begins with labor, and it remains a constant. Without work in all its forms, with all its travails and triumphs, there is no existence. Artists know this and always have. Their profession, now …

FDNY fire protection inspectors have reached a $29.2 million settlement with the city as a result of a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit filed in 2020. According to the settlement’s terms, …

This story has been corrected to note that the city’s financial plan forecasts a budgeted officer headcount of 7,060, not 7,600. Insisting that the number of Department of Correction officers …

A former New Jersey corrections officer conned police officers, firefighters, EMTs and other first responders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a corrupt cryptocurrency scheme he parlayed …

Unions across the city and state are supporting Governor Kathy Hochul’s push for the Biden administration to expedite work authorizations for asylum seekers. In order to help the more than 100,000 …

Members of United University Professions, the nation’s largest higher-education union, have overwhelmingly approved a four-year labor agreement with the state that will bring across-the-board …

Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun …

In the last year, more than 100,000 asylum-seeking migrants have arrived in New York City looking for shelter, safety and family-sustaining jobs. But leaders of organizations supporting the asylum …

NYU Langone-Brooklyn has routinely broken safe-staffing laws, according to the union that represents the hospital’s nurses.  Over the past year-and-a-half, the union, the United Federation of …

A federal appeals court has upheld a nearly $18 million jury verdict compensating more than 2,500 current and former FDNY EMTs for work that had gone unpaid.  The EMTs, who filed suit in …

Ruben Estevez, an FDNY radio technician who claimed he has been bullied, harassed and assaulted by the vice president of his union, is still working in the same office as the union official, months …

A dean at a Queens public school was arrested Tuesday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old male student, the Queens District Attorney’s office announced. Melissa Rockensies, 33, formerly the dean of …

A man who allegedly stabbed a 25-year-old emergency medical technician in an ambulance last month was indicted on attempted murder and other charges Monday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office …

An Uber ride along the city’s streets and avenues will contribute that much less to climate change in the coming years if proposed rules by the Taxi and Limousine Commission are enacted. But the …

Panda Express, Au Bon Pain, and 7-Eleven's ‘Raise the Roost’ location in Greenwich Village will collectively have to pay $4.5 million in restitution to nearly 2,400 workers for violating New York …

A nail salon chain with 25 locations in the city will pay out $300,000 to more than 100 current and former employees after having paid them less than minimum wage and not compensating them for …

Alison Colby has worked in publishing and production for more than 30 years. In early 2020, she started work as production editor for Scholastic Corp’s children’s magazines, a position unionized …