In what could prove to be damning evidence, body camera footage released by the state attorney general’s office Friday shows several state correction officers engaging in a brutal and, according to some officials, ultimately fatal beating of a...
The New York State Court System graduated 158 court officers Dec. 18 at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. The newly minted officers completed four months of paid basic training at the Court Officers Academy, demonstrating their physical...
Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law three union-supported pieces of legislation last week that advocates say will protect warehouse workers from injury, aid workers at car dealerships and regulate state agencies’ use of artificial...
Video footage of an incident implicating state correction officers in the death of an inmate earlier this month is of such a brutal nature that it could spark violence inside jails and prisons statewide, the officers' union said.
Thousands of models, content creators, stylists and others working in New York State’s fashion industry will get paid on time, copied on contracts and agreements and notified of royalties they are owed, according to legislation signed into law by...
A third former superintendent at the city Housing Authority has been convicted of bribery and extortion charges for accepting money in exchange for approving contracts in connection with the large takedown by the U.S. Department of Justice. Corey...
A bill that would have provided full pension benefits to the families of transit workers who work past retirement eligibility but die before retiring was vetoed last week by Governor Kathy Hochul, prompting frustration from two union leaders who...
A building services company will pay over $145,000 to former cleaners and door attendants for breaching prevailing wage and benefits requirements at two different properties under a settlement announced by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander on...
The Professional Staff Congress has reached a tentative contract agreement with the City University of New York that would provide compounded raises of 13.4 percent and increase the minimum pay for adjuncts by 29 percent over the course of the...
Legal advocates, employee rights groups and others during a recent City Council hearing urged the Council to pass a series of bills that would strengthen the city’s pay transparency laws and help address wage disparities faced by women and people...
The Adams administration announced Monday that it has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Service Employees International Union's Doctors Council covering hundreds of physicians in the city’s public hospital system – but the head of...
Dozens of city retirees crowded into the lobby of the city’s largest municipal union Monday afternoon to try and crash a meeting called by the executive director of District Council 37, Henry Garrido, who had invited City Council members to the...
The New York City District Council of Carpenters is one step closer to the end of government supervision after the U.S attorney for the Southern District of New York signed off on a transition plan earlier this month that puts the union on the...
A federal judge granted preliminary approval for a $29.2 million settlement in the class-action racial discrimination suit brought by FDNY fire protection inspectors against the city in 2020. The inspectors and their union, Local 2507 of District...
Two women, one 65, the other 75, arrested, cuffed and strip-searched by police, who say they saw the pair buy drugs. No contraband is ever found on the women. Seven cops responding to a person with behavioral health issues promptly cuff the man...
Attorneys working in New York's public sector are calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to expand and improve funding for two loan forgiveness programs that provide debt relief for prosecutors, public defenders and attorneys representing indigent...
Resident physicians at Montefiore Medical Center’s Moses campus marched outside of the Bronx hospital in the rain Wednesday to call on the hospital administration to reach a contract that eliminates fees for certain residents and establishes a due...
Although the number of full-time nurses in the city’s public hospital system has significantly rebounded, city hospitals are still spending more than projected on temporary nursing staff, a recent report by the state Comptroller’s office...
The former longtime president of the United Probation Officers Association must repay the union nearly $685,000 and also forfeit $750,000 following his guilty plea earlier this year to defrauding the union of funds he used to pay for jewelry,...
Nurses at Mount Sinai South Nassau recently rallied to speak out against what they described as the hospital administration’s persistent delays of their first contact. Members of the New York State Nurses Association and elected officials held an...
June 2, 2023, was unusually hot for a late spring day. Temperatures hit a high of nearly 90 degrees early that afternoon. It was even hotter underground, within the subway stations where Sirui Ma spent nearly that entire Friday. Ma, a...
Foot traffic at the Strand Book Store in Greenwich Village slowed to a trickle over the weekend as the 100-year-old book shop’s unionized workers marched on picket lines outside its main entrance and shooed potential customers away. “Don’t cross...
Members of Los Deliveristas Unidos came out to support City Council bills that would expand the city’s minimum wage protections for restaurant deliveristas to grocery store delivery workers – but also called on the Council to close loopholes that...
The president of the Subway Surface Supervisors Association won re-election to his third term by acclimation last month after no challengers for the union’s top post were nominated. Mike Carrube has run the 4,200-member union since 2015 and is...
Region 9A of the United Auto Workers last week endorsed three candidates for New York City Mayor heralded as “pro-labor champions,” and explicitly urged its members not to vote for Mayor Eric Adams. In unanimous vote held Dec. 4, the...
