EMS workers looking to take the promotional exam to become FDNY firefighters later this year are calling for the city to grant a one-time exception for those who have aged out of eligibility to join …

An FDNY radio mechanic who says he has been sexually assaulted, bullied and otherwise harassed and also frustrated by the failure of fire officials to follow up on his claims intends to sue the …

Vincent Alvarez will begin a fourth term as president of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, July 1.  Any transition from June 30 will likely be seamless, even if the work — …

“Let’s get hired!” roared Mayor Eric Adams at the NYC Government Hiring Hall on May 20, 2023 at the Surrogate’s Courthouse at 31 Chambers Street in Brooklyn.  Thousands of professionally …

The proposed elimination of nearly 500 vacant school crossing guard positions has been slammed as shortsighted and careless by District Council 37, elected officials and transportation safety …

To address a large number of vacancies and retention issues within the municipal workforce, members of the City Council recently are weighing proposed legislation that would require city agencies to …

A pilot program that will allow eligible city employees represented by District Council 37 to work from home up to two days a week launched Thursday, the union and Mayor Eric Adams announced. …

A group of retired municipal workers filed a class-action suit Wednesday to halt the city from imposing a single cost-free health care plan on retirees that they have long claimed is vastly inferior …

The 40,000 bus and subway workers represented by TWU Local 100 would receive what the union called “solid annual raises,” a full three months of paid maternity leave and annual cash bonuses, …

Nearly one in five farmworkers in New York State has lost work time as a result of being injured on the job, while nearly half of workers who were injured say they received no compensation for lost …

The Professional Staff Congress, which represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York, has sued the public-university system over what the union claims is CUNY’s “repeated …

Angelina Palafox has been working as a nail specialist for more than 20 years in various New York salons. At her most recent job, she was paid both in cash and by check. Palafox noticed, though, that …

Even as the city proceeds with a shift of its 250,000 municipal retirees to a private Medicare Advantage plan, scheduled for Sept. 1, former city workers continue to voice their opposition, if in …

Yolanda Johnson-Peterkin wanted to become a dental hygienist when she was growing up. “It was because I hated the dentist. I used to think the dental hygienists were cool because they would calm …

Hundreds of unionized construction workers rallied outside of the Fulton Street offices of Joy Construction Thursday to memorialize six laborers who they said have died on the firm’s work sites …

They’re seemingly everywhere, often to motorists' frustration.  But traffic enforcement agents’ ubiquity adds up to about $1 billion in revenue for the city, according to their union’s …

Several dozen unionized City Council staffers rallied outside of City Hall on Wednesday to highlight the slow pace of contract negotiations with Council management. The staffers, members of the …

Nearly 170 residents at Elmhurst Hospital, who are employed by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, reached a tentative contract deal Wednesday morning, the third day of their strike, …

Only one group of workers at the fast casual restaurant chain Chipotle have voted to unionize. The company, though, has drawn scrutiny from federal regulators for closing a separate unionizing …

The manicures may be pretty, but the nail salon industry is looking pretty rough, workers and advocates say. “Other than getting a wage, we really don’t have any other protection,” said Shweta …

Exploding lithium-ion batteries became the leading cause of fire deaths in the city so far this year following a blaze in a Washington Heights apartment building earlier this month that killed four …

The city’s decision to temporarily place asylum seekers in public-school gymnasiums sparked intense backlash from parents, community members and elected officials. But it also kindled concerns from …

In October 2017, James Cahill, then the president of the New York State Building & Construction Trades Council, called it his duty to ensure the well-being of laborers.  "It’s important to …

For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, someone other than Patrick J. Lynch will be leading the nation’s largest municipal police union come July 1.  But despite announcing a few …

NYPD officers Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera, who were ambushed and killed after responding to a 911 call, and the rookie cop who took down the gunman were honored Wednesday, along with six others, by …