After months of inaction and despite pronounced opposition from retired municipal workers, the City Council appears poised to consider changing the city’s administrative code to permit  the …

The head of the Westchester County Correction Officers' Benevolent Association has denounced Governor Kathy Hochul’s veto of a bill that would have granted lump-sum benefits to the families of county jail staff who work past retirement eligibility but die before retiring. 

Workers at HarperCollins Publishers entered 2023 still on strike, more than 40 days after about 250 employees at the publishing giant walked out when contract negotiations broke down in …

Family, friends and fellow firefighters assembled in St. Patrick’s R.C. Church in Bay Shore, Long Island, Thursday to bid their final goodbyes to FDNY Firefighter William P. Moon II, remembering …

Municipal retirees battling the city’s proposed shift to a private Medicare plan for its 250,000 retired workers have a prominent ally in the City Council. In a lengthy note she appended to a …

The City Council has released a long-awaited report to its staffers on the body’s Equal Employment Opportunity policies that include recommendations on how the Council can better combat harassment …

Nurses are fed up: more than 16,000 who work at private hospitals across the city and whose contracts are set to expire at the end of this month have voted to authorize a strike.Nearly 99 percent of …

Most employers across New York state must include a salary range within job postings starting next fall following pay transparency legislation recently signed into law by Governor Kathy …

TWU Local 100 officials sharply criticized what the MTA has described as “service adjustments” to several subway lines planned for next year. The suggested changes would add wait times from …

A veteran FDNY firefighter who was critically injured Dec. 12 when he fell from inside his Crown Heights firehouse was taken off of life support on Monday. William P. Moon II was preparing for a …

Tony Utano, who had just graduated high school when he began his NYC Transit career as an electrical helper and started ascending through the ranks at Transport Workers Union of America Local 100 …

Home-health aides, advocate groups and elected officials last week kicked off a campaign demanding raises for home-care workers, who are among the lowest paid workers in the state. The state is …

Young workers in New York City — especially young men — are still struggling to recover from Covid-related job losses, according to a recent report from the state comptroller’s office.The …

At a City Council hearing last week spotlighting recent outages in the FDNY’s dispatching system, union leaders turned the focus to the beleaguered workers tasked with taking calls and dispatching …

In an expected, but nonetheless significant outcome, an arbitrator has determined that the city must switch more than 250,000 retired municipal workers to a cost-saving, private-sector Medicare …

The former president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council and 10 other ex-union officials admitted in federal court to selling out their members in exchange for hefty bribes …

A federal judge’s order that the city must hire jail supervisors from outside Department of Correction ranks is shortsighted and unjust, union leaders said. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor …

Comptroller Brad Lander released a report last week reviewing, and critiquing, Mayor Eric Adams’ budget cut plans, which he argued could further emaciate the already depleted ranks of city civil …

Ahead of testimony from workers and organizers at a hearing of the City Council’s Committee on Civil Service and Labor last week , committee Chair Carmen De La Rosa said she wanted to find out how …

Federally employed firefighters, EMTs and others look likely to have access to long-sought health benefits by the end of the year.  The Federal Firefighters Fairness Act, which would provide …

Six CUNY professors who resigned from the Professional Staff Congress after alleging that the union was agitating antisemitic sentiment had their First Amendment claims dismissed by a U.S. District …

The roughly 1,400 members of the New York State Supreme Court Officers Association have a new contract. The union’s membership last week ratified a five-year deal retroactive to 2021 bringing …

While Amazon CEO Andy Jassy spoke at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit last week, a few of his employees spoke out as well — by protesting outside the entrance to the event at Columbus …

More than 40 years ago, David Delancey made a grave mistake. It landed him a two-decade prison term, and “rightfully so,” Delancey said last week. “I was held accountable,” he …

A steady spike in heating outages at the city Housing Authority and slow progression towards replacing elevators indicated that while the agency has advanced in its reform efforts, much more work …