Suspensions in city public schools dropped 45 percent during the most-recent school year—largely thanks to the closing of schools prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. There were 18,215 …

The largest union representing staff and faculty at the City University of New York blasted the public-university system’s decision to furlough hundreds of administrators in light of major budget …

The Council of School Supervisors has agreed to defer half of a payment of $90 million in retroactive wages that was due in February until the first payroll period next November under a deal that …

The head of NYC Health + Hospitals and city health officials affirmed that the public-hospital system has a three-month supply of personal protective equipment in preparation for a second wave of the …

The 2020 election results for labor-related ballot questions were a mixed bag for unions. While voters in Florida voted overwhelmingly to support a $15-an-hour minimum wage, joining New York, New …

NYPD officials said a small band of agitators was to blame for clashes between police and demonstrators that rocked Greenwich Village and elsewhere after nightfall Nov. 4, resulting in dozens of …

Republican State Senate candidates backed by a coalition of police unions appeared to have regained a number of seats the party lost two years ago, raising the likelihood that at least some of the …

Following reports that the Department of Correction had tagged hundreds of its officers as chronic absentees after they were laid up by the coronavirus, two state Legislators have drafted a bill that …

Benny Boscio  took office as president of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association riding a wave of discontent that had its roots in the criminal behavior of former President Norman Seabrook …

The Working Families Party, forced to cope with a 160-percent increase in the number of votes required to retain its line on the state ballot at a time when its union support had shrunk dramatically, …