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Appeals panel rebuffs city’s Medicare effort

City retirees secured yet another court victory in their bid to keep their traditional Medicare and no-cost supplemental coverage.  In a unanimous decision issued Tuesday, a State Supreme Court …

Build it and they will come … work.  In a bid to attract municipal employees, the city comptroller and a former director of policy for Governor Kathy Hochul have proposed launching a program …

Highlighting life-saving work

The FDNY’s annual weeklong celebration of its 4,400 EMS members began May 16 with the unveiling of the official EMS Week poster, a yearly tradition to highlight the work of the department’s EMTs, …

The city’s public hospital system has hired more than 1,000 nurses over the last eight months as part of its goal to reduce its reliance on temporary nurses.  The number of full- and part-time …

The FDNY formally launched its firefighter recruitment campaign last week, announcing the slogan “all heroes welcome” in anticipation of the first open competitive exam for firefighters …

City database would track worker deaths

City employers would be mandated to report workplace deaths, according to recently introduced City Council legislation.  Council Member Carmen De La Rosa’s bill,  introduced Thursday, …

Staffers accuse SEIU Local 1199 of union-busting

Staff at one of the state's largest and most powerful unions say that local leadership has been attempting to stifle their push to unionize by distributing anti-union mailers urging staff to vote no …

The pull of a small payday proved too strong for one city correction officer, prosecutors said.  Andre Brown, a CO assigned to the Department of Correction’s holding facility at the Bronx Hall …

A passion for justice

Democratic politician, civil rights champion and social agitator Paul O’Dwyer — with his white pompadour, thick eyebrows, and soft Irish brogue — became a well-known New York civil rights …

'Revived' 9/11 Worker Protection panel remains dormant

As evidence mounted that an increasing number of workers who labored on the World Trade Center site following the September 11 terror attacks had been afflicted by toxic dust and were growing …

Retail workers to get $2.5 million for labor violations

Starbucks, Cava, a Burger King location and several other employers must pay $2.5 million in restitution to 3,000 workers for violating city labor laws, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. The …

City transit workers still awaiting 9/11 disability benefits

For six years, with every new version of a state bill that would grant them three-quarter disability pension benefits, a few dozen now retired New York City Transit workers who worked on the World …

Two public defenders at the Legal Aid Society are suing the organization, a lawyers union and New York City, claiming that paying private union dues breaches their First Amendment rights.  The …

NewsGuild settles slew of contracts

Employees at several publications have recently settled contract agreements, including staffers at The New York Times’s Wirecutter, The NewsGuild-Communication Workers of America announced. The …

Sesame Workshop writers approve new contract

Sunny day: Sesame Workshop writers have ratified a five-year contract that includes “monumental” protections that grant the writers jurisdiction over new media programs, protections against …

City workforce grows, state comptroller finds

The city workforce is expected to increase for the first time since the start of the pandemic, according to a report by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office. Between last July, the start of the …

On Thursday, after 11 weeks on strike, a group of unionized workers at the nonprofit legal services firm Mobilization for Justice picketing outside of their Manhattan headquarters held a vote.  …

Man who tried to kill NYPD officers gets 27 years

The man who tried to kill NYPD officers with a long knife as part of a violent jihad on New Year’s Eve 2022 has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.  Trevor Bickford, 20, of Wells, Maine, had …

Cuts could trim libraries’ Saturday service

Ayana Yanai periodically visits the Morningside Heights Library to check out books for the fifth-grade student she tutors in reading. Yanai, a Columbia graduate student on a teacher certification …

As part of the budget cuts imposed by Mayor Eric Adams in the last two years, the FDNY has trimmed its overtime spending, instituted a partial hiring freeze and, most drastically, terminated …

Two educators said they were fired or forced to resign from the city public school system after they were doxxed for expressing views that were in support of Palestine. James Parra, who worked as a …

Federal warehouse worker protection bill introduced

Warehouse workers nationwide would no longer have to meet speed quotas and employers would have to establish national ergonomic standards, according to legislation introduced by Congressional …

Pregnant bus operators suing New York City Transit for allegedly failing to provide them with reasonable accommodations urged the authority to address the issue. During a MTA board meeting Tuesday, …

Former Brewster cop sentenced for sex-bribery scheme

A former Brewster cop has been sentenced to three years in prison for protecting members of two Queens-based prostitution businesses from law enforcement in exchange for sex, which he occasionally …

Workers celebrate May Day with gazes fixed on Gaza

Since students at Columbia University set up an encampment at their Morningside Heights campus last month to demand that the school sever its financial ties with Israel, hundreds of students at …

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