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Transit unions pay tribute to workers who died from Covid

Union officials from the Subway-Surface Supervisors Association, the Amalgamated Transit Union and the United Transit Leadership Organization held a memorial service Thursday honoring transit workers …

Cascade of union cash poured into Council primaries

A dynasty appears to have ended in Eastern Brooklyn.  Chris Banks, a longtime community organizer, looks to have eked out a victory in the Democratic primary for the City Council seat that …

Telework coming to FDNY

Several hundred civilian FDNY employees will be able to work from home two days a week starting later this month after DC 37 locals checked off on a plan submitted by the department. Among the …

Civil-service exam fees waived as state looks to hire

Governor Kathy Hochul, hoping to boost the state workforce, announced that application fees for all state civil-service exams will be waived through the end of 2025. The state, which currently has …

The FDNY welcomed 59 paramedics into the department’s ranks June 30 following their graduation from the EMS academy after nine-and-a-half months of clinical internships and training in hospitals …

A former city Department of Education executive faces 20 years in prison following his conviction on bribery and other charges for trading payments from a food purveyor in return for accepting …

Council wants to make it easier to file harassment claims

The City Council is considering a series of bills aimed at expanding protections for workers experiencing discrimination, but some lawmakers have called out what they perceive is a lack of support …

Earlier this year, Mayor Eric Adams signed two bills outlawing the sale of both uncertified lithium-ion batteries and those built using power cells removed from used devices.  The mandates enabled the …

James sues nursing home operators, alleging abuse and fraud

Alleging a pattern of abuse and fraud by the owners and operators of nursing homes in the Bronx, Queens, Westchester County and Buffalo, State Attorney General Letitia James filed a multipronged …

Union leaders of EMS first responders have for years called for the city to negotiate contracts that include raises for members to allow them to reach pay parity with the city’s other first …

City vacancies a factor in high Black jobless rate: report

That there are more than 22,000 unfilled positions within the municipal workforce has raised widespread concerns about the extent to which critical city services are being impacted. But the high …

Retired MTA workers blast planned Medicare Advantage switch

Retired MTA workers along with a coalition of active Local 100 workers have strongly criticized the union’s effort to strip the retirees of their cost-free government-run Medicare.  The …

City nurses insist H+H has the money to close wage gap

To stop the exodus of nurses from the city’s public hospitals, the New York State Nurses Association is insisting on a contract that significantly closes the wage gap between nurses at NYC Health + …

Richard Ravitch, a former lieutenant governor and longtime civic leader known for his role in steering New York City through the fiscal crisis of the 1970s and stabilizing its mass transit system in …

The City Council, Mayor Eric Adams and federal lawmakers have all gone on the offensive to try and decrease the number of e-bike fires by tightening regulations and strengthening enforcement, with …

The contentious and protracted effort by successive mayoral administrations to shift retired municipal workers into a private Medicare health-care plan could get an up and down vote in the City …

Taxi drivers demand congestion pricing exemption

New York is set to implement first-of-its kind congestion pricing for vehicles entering the city’s central business district below 60 th street in Manhattan next year, and the city’s yellow cab …

Dispute over new position delays EMS contract talks

When Mayor Eric Adams stood alongside the presidents of 11 unions representing most of the city’s uniformed employees last week to announce a tentative contract covering 32,000 workers, he said the …

Head of NYPD sergeant’s union cautions cops on promotions

Citing a disparity in pay, the head of the NYPD’s sergeant’s union is cautioning cops to think hard about whether they should delay or even accept promotions to the supervisory rank given …

In militant mood, 32BJ kick-starts contract campaign

Just after 3 last Thursday, hundreds of office cleaners belonging to Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, many their workday done, converged on the block just west of Bryant Park, their …

State legislation would bar prison work loophole

As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of Black people from slavery, state legislators are considering a bill to amend the state constitution by barring what they say …

Council: Gig workers get sick too, grant them time off

For the majority of workers across New York City, taking a paid sick day seems like a basic right. But for nearly 140,000 gig workers, it simply isn’t an option. For now.  Members of the City …

City pushing forward with Medicare Advantage switch

The Adams administration has deemed the city’s contentious Medicare Advantage contract with Aetna registered, despite the city Comptroller’s recent decision not to register the agreement and a …

Uniformed unions, city agree on 5-year contract

Eleven of the city’s uniformed unions and the Adams administration have negotiated a tentative five-year contract agreement giving 32,000 workers compounded raises of 17.77 percent over the life of …

City’s food delivery workers get long-sought minimum wage

The city’s app-based restaurant delivery workers will be earning at least $18 an hour, plus tips, starting next month following the establishment of the nation’s first-of-its-kind minimum pay …

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