Hours after Mayor Adams announced his plan to allow first responders to forcefully remove mentally ill New Yorkers so they could receive treatment, criticisms and concern began to flood in from …
Mayor Eric Adams on Monday signed into law a package of bills intended to diversify the FDNY, the nation’s largest fire department, and better reflect the demographics of the city it serves. The …
In anticipation of reopening bathrooms in eight subway stations next year, the MTA is in the process of hiring more than 800 new cleaners to service stations and train cars throughout the system, …
Victory might have come by a thinner margin than expected earlier in the campaign, but Kathy Hochul’s election as the state’s first female governor nonetheless gave her a significant mandate.A …
“This isn’t a workforce shortage, it’s a wage shortage,” Inayat Sabhikhi, the national research and coalition manager at One Fair Wage, testified at a recent state Assembly hearing on New …
“I think the central focus for this campaign is competitive wages for everyone — that has to be the North Star.”
An appeals court panel has sided with city retirees in their battle with Adams administration officials over a planned switch of their traditional Medicare health plan to a cost-saving, …
Nurses rallied last week at hospitals in the Bronx and in Yonkers to demand fair contracts and improved staffing ratios. Health care workers gathered outside of St. Joseph’s Medical Center in …
Although the number of vacancies in the city’s municipal workforce has grown to 19,000, the city plans to slash the number of vacancies agencies can fill by half because of growing fiscal concerns, …
App-based restaurant delivery workers would be guaranteed a $23.82 minimum wage, according to a proposal by the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which last week released a …
It took just one day of striking for part-time faculty at the New School to win concessions from management that educators had been asking for since contract talks began in June. The strike started …
The number of electric bikes and scooters populating city streets has grown exponentially since they first started appearing en masse in 2020. Commuters, but particularly food delivery workers, have …
The city is about to get a scrubbing. Mayor Eric Adams last week said the city would invest $14.5 million this fiscal year in a cross-agency effort to clean up neglected areas and neighborhoods, …
A Rikers correction officer partied in the Dominican Republic and Florida, collecting her full salary during the 14 months she feigned illness and injuries to stay off the job. Her …
Although thousands of students at the City University of New York earn degrees in technology, CUNY graduates are underrepresented in tech jobs, a recent report from the Center for an Urban Future …
Two superintendents at the city Housing Authority have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for granting no-bid contracts, the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New …
A contentious amendment to the municipal code that would allow the city to charge retired civil servants for continued enrollment in their traditional Medicare could be finding some traction within …
Educators say that the Department of Education’s early childhood division is being dismantled and have planned a no confidence vote in the leadership of Deputy Chancellor Kara Ahmed.
Drivers who haul fuel processed at United Metro Energy’s Greenpoint facility to institutions throughout the city, as well as the Teamsters local that negotiated the agreement, believed that their …
Subway crime showed few signs of ebbing, despite the influx of police throughout the system late last month. The NYPD, in conjunction with MTA Police efforts, increased its presence to combat …
For years, non-union labor brokers in the city have employed laborers from vulnerable communities, such as newly arrived immigrants and people recently released from prison, to lower their labor …
The city has given unions and, by extension, retirees an ultimatum regarding health coverage: Get the City Council to pass legislation allowing the city to charge most retirees for continued …
Cleaners at Montefiore Medical Center alleging that they were cheated out of overtime pay for years have filed a federal class action suit. The cleaners, Danny Ramirez Cruz Guerrero (referred …
In another step towards parity for Staten Island Ferry engineers, the City Comptroller’s office determined in a preliminary decision that the marine engineers should be paid wages comparable to …
App-based delivery workers organizing with Los Deliveristas Unidos rallied on Thursday to call on the city to set their minimum wage at $30 an hour. The Department of Consumer and Worker …
