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School stabbing renews calls for more safety agents

After a school safety agent and a teacher were stabbed while defending a guidance counselor at a Bronx elementary school, unions representing teachers and principals called on the city to restore …

Amazon workers in Staten Island vote to unionize

Amazon workers in Staten Island have voted to unionize, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant's history and handing an unexpected win to a nascent group that fueled …

City jails overrun by ‘dysfunction,’ report notes

In a damning indictment of the Department of Correction’s new leadership team, the federal monitor overseeing reforms in city jails found that DOC efforts to thwart violence inside lockups has …

Nonprofit workers rally for better pay

Like so many nonprofit human-services employees, Johanna Ortiz, a pediatric community health worker, often struggles to make ends meet. “There is no greater satisfaction than the gratitude the …

City pension funds vote to divest of Russian assets

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reverberated across global financial systems, and also here. Trustees of the $88 billion municipal employees fund as well as those governing the funds of the …

NYPD union given voice in protest suits

A Federal appeals court has granted the Police Benevolent Association the right to intervene in lawsuits stemming from the NYPD’s handling of street protests following the May 2020 death of …

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