Two former postal workers at the JFK International Service Center in Queens accused of stealing U.S. Treasury checks worth more $4 million and pawning them off for payments have been indicted on …
Since securing a first-in-the-nation minimum wage late last year, app-based restaurant delivery workers in New York City are making more money and spending less time idling between orders. That’s …
Workers at The Bronx Defenders say they’ll be walking out on strike the morning of July 22 if they’re unable to reach a deal with management within the next two weeks. The attorneys, paralegals, …
Sixteen current and former city educators deliberately submitted fake Covid-19 vaccination cards, according to an investigation by the independent watchdog for the city's Department of …
Scott Munro, the new head of the Detective Endowment Association, is unbowed before the challenges facing his union. Top of the to-do pile for the 32-year NYPD cop, who ascended to the …
A coalition of more than two dozen state and local government agencies, among them the State Attorney General’s Office and the City Comptroller’s Office, are urging the U.S. Department of …
Major crimes declined citywide through the first half of the year, with killings and shootings in particular showing marked drops, according to recent NYPD statistics. Through June, homicides …
Workers in the construction trade commit suicide at a higher rate than those in any other major industry group , except mining, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Faced with that sobering …
A Manhattan postal worker and her partner have been indicted on charges of stealing credit cards and checks from mail bound for addresses in Midtown, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin …
Paul DiGiacomo’s NYPD career spanned high-crime epochs, the crack scourge, the 9/11 terror attacks, Covid and also numerous successes, challenges and tragedies that a decades-long tenure on the job …
The state Department of Labor has recovered more than $63 million in stolen wages in the two years since the agency heightened efforts to combat wage theft, the governor’s office announced Monday. …
Teachers at a Long Island City charter school are alleging that school’s officials are stalling negotiations but are holding out hope to settle a first contract before the start of the school …
FDNY firefighters who took the 2022 lieutenant’s exam remain puzzled and frustrated as to why a curve was applied to test results even as the department has started promoting from the resulting …
The Adams administration has petitioned the Court of Appeals to sanction its effort to shift 250,000 retired municipal workers to a privately administered Medicare Advantage plan. In an appeals …
New Jersey Transit engineers are one step closer to walking out on strike after the National Mediation Board concluded more than four years of bargaining between the engineers’ union and the …
Five current and former employees at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center are facing federal bribery charges for allegedly smuggling marijuana, razor blades and other contraband into the facility, …
A group of unionized office cleaners who had their benefits stripped and wages cut in half rallied outside of their midtown workplace Wednesday, looking to pressure their contractor and the …
At the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Greenwich Village, along the brick and terra-cotta facade of the neo-Renaissance building there, a stainless steel band soars to the …
“All of this could end tomorrow. I just want to go back to throwing garbage in the rain,” said Daniel Hulkower, a former city sanitation worker who lost his job for refusing to get vaccinated …
Registration for the FDNY’s open competitive exam for firefighters opened on Monday, more than three months after it was initially scheduled. Firefighter hopefuls between the ages of 17 ½ and 29 …
With the city’s budget deadline looming, nearly two dozen state and federal lawmakers signed onto a letter urging Mayor Eric Adams to invest in programs that would make the city more affordable for …
The state agency tasked with administering labor law in the public sector has been pushing its city counterpart to alter a rule it applies to union members to make it easier for public employees to …
Among the various retail and service workplaces where employees have formed unions since 2021, Blank Street Coffee, the private equity-backed coffee chain that first opened in Brooklyn in 2020, is …
In a potentially significant setback for the Adams administration’s effort to switch municipal retirees to a cost-saving private health plan, the United Federation of Teachers has withdrawn its …
Nearly 2,800 New York City Health + Hospitals doctors are seeking a contract that will provide salaries that allow the public hospital system to retain physicians. Doctors, their union, the Service …
