Hundreds of street vendors and advocates marched from Union Square to City Hall Thursday to demand that the City Council pass a package of legislation that would increase the number of permits …
Former President Donald Trump’s claims that undocumented immigrants are taking away jobs from Black workers hasn’t shown to be true in New York City, according to a recent analysis by the Center …
Michelle Cox was in disbelief when a U.S. Department of Labor official told her earlier this year she was violating federal law by employing 14- and 15-year-olds past 7 p.m. on school nights. Cox, …
July in the Northeast was one of the hottest on record, with heat wave after heat wave scorching the Empire State. With another five weeks of summer left, the state Department of Labor this week …
If you’re setting your sights on a comfortable retirement, you might want to consider a state gig in the health-care field. According to data compiled by the Empire Center, nine of the 10 …
The United Auto Workers union has filed unfair labor practice charges against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk after the two discussed on social media about Musk …
Several dozen workers and union leaders rallied outside of Baco Enterprises’ warehouse in the Bronx last week to protest the firing of Alex Patterson, an employee who had been attempting to …
When you’re racing around the city in an ambulance saving lives on a 12-hour shift, there’s typically little downtime. But everyone, and particularly especially EMTs and paramedics caring …
Robert S. Tucker, an attorney by training who heads a city-based security and investigative services company, was appointed FDNY commissioner by Mayor Eric Adams Monday. Tucker, 54, succeeds …
A former FDNY EMT has pleaded guilty to stealing $600 from an undercover investigator posing as a sick patient. The integrity test, which occurred at 3:26 a.m. on Aug. 2, 2023, saw EMT Luis Carrillo …
A NYPD officer has been indicted on charges of using a chokehold in the course of a July 2023 arrest, the second time the 40-year-old cop has been accused of using the prohibited and lethal maneuver …
EMS workers would get raises conforming to the civilian pattern and not the larger pay bumps given to those in the uniformed services, according to the city's latest contract offer, union leaders …
It’s 4 p.m. on a recent afternoon, and Chef Kandy Williams, the culinary instructor at Hot Bread Kitchen in Lower Manhattan’s Manny Cantor Center, is putting the finishing touches on the lesson …
Rhonda Villamia spent weeks in the vicinity of ground zero following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Within the first few days after the collapse of the towers, she was handing out snacks and …
It took about a year of workers complaining for management at Bill T. Jones/New York Live Arts to finally fix front doors at their Chelsea theater that were difficult to close. But management …
“The largest organization for women in the country is actually the labor movement.” So said Rebecca Damon, the executive director of SAG-AFTRA’s New York local and now also the …
As the expiration date of the first-ever union contract for staffers at The New Yorker approached last month, the union’s leadership sent out a survey to the unit’s 102 members to gauge how many …
Hundreds of union laborers held a boisterous Thursday afternoon rally in the Flatiron District to hammer a luxury residential developer’s use of a notorious demolition firm. Laborers' Local 79 and …
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance on Wednesday assailed an agreement between the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission and two rideshare companies designed to reduce the amount of driver lockouts …
Members of District Council 37's Local 3005 say that attempts to mobilize their coworkers over the last two years have been stonewalled and met with apathy by union leadership. Current …
To counter what he implied was the avarice of profit-driven health care providers and the indifference of elected officials, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, last …
Unions representing teachers, school safety agents and other school staff are weighing in on a plan to ban cellphones in schools, with most appearing in favor. In a New York Times op-ed …
In a dimly lit room strung with fairy lights and ivy, transit workers file in and lie on inflated cots. Soothing piano notes play as a teacher rubs their ankles and toes, helping each with heated …
Despite being eligible to telework several days a week under a remote work pilot program, 150 workers at the Police Pension Fund are still required to work in the office five days a week. Tens …
A shortage of city medical examiners has prompted the union representing the forensic pathologists to urge the mayor and labor commissioner to settle a contract and provide more funding to the Office …
