Acrimony tied to the longtime contract impasse between the union representing Staten Island Ferry workers and the city has spilled into public view. A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams last week …
Postdoctoral workers at Columbia University have started voting on whether to authorize a strike and Mount Sinai postdocs will hold a similar strike vote later this week. Members of the Columbia …
Dozens of employees at the New York City Housing Authority in four formerly non-union managerial positions are set to join District Council 37 later this year. But the 60 workers transitioning into …
The New York State Nurses Association has reached a tentative contract agreement with the city’s public-hospital system that would close the longstanding pay gap between public- and private-sector …
Patrick Hendry doesn’t want to settle for the status quo. The 30-year NYPD cop and the newly installed president of the Police Benevolent Association wants more for his members because, Hendry said …
The largest local within District Council 37 has been ordered to re-run its election due to concerns the city’s poor air quality hampered turnout for the in-person contest. The American Federation …
Rank and file employees of the Public Employees Federation have approved a contract that brings raises of 3 percent in each of the deal’s three years as well as a lump-sum payment of $3,000. …
Workers at Barboncino in Crown Heights have been serving up wood-fired pizzas and Italian-American classics for more than a decade in a brick-lined dining room off Franklin Avenue. Since May, …
The FDNY will be presenting Covid-service breast bars or lapel pins to every member of the department, both uniformed and civilian, who worked from March 1, 2020, to May 31, 2022. FDNY …
Each time this century that the Teamsters reached tentative agreements with UPS on a nationwide contract, Eugene Braswell, like most members of Local 804 in Queens, didn’t hesitate before voting …
Hundreds of city Department of Transportation have filed a federal lawsuit over unpaid overtime. The highway repairers and assistant city highway repairers allege that the city has routinely not paid …
Mike Berent has spent more than 27 years rushing into burning houses in Detroit, pulling people to safety and ensuring his fellow firefighters get out alive. But as the 52-year-old Detroit Fire …
Two supervisors at Horizon Juvenile Detention Center have been charged with federal civil rights offenses after they allegedly attacked a 16-year-old detainee and tried to cover up the assault, …
NYPD unions are railing against the scheduled release next month of one of the men convicted of gunning down NYPD Officer Edward Byrne as he sat in his patrol car in Jamaica, Queens, in February …
The city’s Summer Youth Employment Program should be doing more to connect young New Yorkers with jobs in high-paying and growing industries such as the tech sector, a recent report from the Center …
Tens of thousands of people who commute into New York City each day might have to find another way to travel this fall. Unions representing about 600 Metro-North Railroad mechanics and …
The NYPD welcomed 527 new police officers to its ranks Tuesday following their graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden and six months of training at the police academy in Queens. In …
A former Bureau of Prisons correctional officer will do 43 months behind bars after admitting to smuggling oxycodone, marijuana, cellphones, cigarettes, alcohol and other substances into the …
Well before it was warm enough to plant seedlings in the ground, farmer Micah Barritt began nursing crops like watermelon, eggplant and tomatoes — eventually transplanting them from his greenhouse …
UPS has reached a tentative contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union, potentially averting a strike that threatened to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike. …
Dylan D., a preloader at the Oakland hub since 2022, spoke with columnist Robert Ovetz ahead of a possible strike by UPS workers that could start early Tuesday morning should the Teamsters and the …
The FDNY is struggling to maintain a culture of camaraderie and cohesion within its firehouses, with female and Black firefighters in particular contending with harassment and white firefighters …
A group of street vendors and advocates rallied near Bella Abzug Park in Hudson Yards Wednesday to resist an effort to move them out of the pricey development on the Far West Side. They allege that …
Lawyers, paralegals, social workers and administrative staff at The Children’s Law Center unionized in the summer of 2020 during a wave of organizing at legal service providers across the city. …
More than 600 food and beverage workers at the Barclays Center reached a tentative agreement with their employer this week for a new contract that would expand health-care eligibility, raise wages …
