Many years ago, when I was an underachieving, neurotic teenager bursting with urban angst and  an insatiable urge to prove myself in any way I could, as long as the goal was elusive and …

Norman Seabrook, the former head of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, might have gotten too harsh of a prison sentence when he was ordered to spend nearly five years behind bars for …

The plague of shootings that have roiled some city neighborhoods since shortly after the start of the pandemic just over two years ago is showing no sign of abating, according to the latest police …

“It’s pretty staggering that two million Americans will face workplace violence and 1,000 will lead to death,” said Vinny Alvarez, president of the New York City Central Labor Council. “I think more workplaces and employers can be doing things to mitigate workplace violence.”

In December, a small Buffalo-area Starbucks store voted in favor of unionizing with Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Those 19 votes cast for the union in …

The number of union representation petitions filed at the National Labor Relations Board has jumped 57 percent during the past six months—but the increased workload for the federal agency comes at …

With gun violence again roiling the city and the nation, Mayor Eric Adams has once more called for outside help in combating the scourge of illegal guns, but also insisted that stopping and …

Rats, broken toilets, crumbling ceilings. Some of the City University of New York's aging campuses are in such dire conditions that they have reached crisis level, according to students and faculty …

City comptroller Brad Lander said he lacks “sufficient information” to register the contract for a controversial Medicare plan for city retirees, dealing the proposal, already beset by widespread …

The unemployment rate for the nearly 1 million New York City residents living with a disability skyrocketed during the pandemic and shows little sign of easing, despite an overall decrease since …

For veteran teacher Camille Eterno, safety concerns for her fellow educators during the coronavirus pandemic were what prompted her to run to become the United Federation of Teachers’s next …

Elected officials and civil rights and union leaders rallied last week at the New York State Capitol building in an effort to push Governor Kathy Hochul and legislators to include the Clean Slate Act …

More than 180 employees at the American Museum of Natural History are seeking to unionize, reflecting a recent wave of cultural institutions organizing over the past few years.An in-person election …

Sonam Ghisling Lama begins his days by 8 a.m. and works until 6 or 7 in the evening—an average of 50-55 hours each week spent hurrying people to their meetings and doctor’s appointments, picking …

“It was as though we had all done something wrong. It shouldn't have been. We were sorry. Mea culpa! Mea culpa! We didn't want it that way." Speaking at Cornell University in 1964, Frances …

A second Amazon warehouse in Staten Island will have a union election next month, the National Labor Relations Board said last week. In-person voting will be held at the facility known as LDJ5 …

Advocates and lawmakers are pushing back on Governor Kathy Hochul’s plan to enact more restrictive bail laws as she looks to respond to increases in major crimes and gun violence. Hochul said she …

Faculty and staff at the City University of New York represented by the Professional Staff Congress must be fully vaccinated against coronavirus by April 1, but the union questioned why that policy …

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 …

The city’s public-hospital system plans to terminate nearly 900 contact tracers in late April as its contact tracing program concludes. NYC Health + Hospitals will lay off 874 contact tracers …

Amplifying her contention soon after taking office last August that policing as a profession was "broken," AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a podcast that aired March 9 that if cops who were …

Freelancers who work on film and TV production in the city have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election. The more than 150 workers with the Post Production …

With renewed mission and a profile makeover, the NYPD’s reconstituted anti-crime units have returned to city streets to combat spikes in violent crime driven by what officials have said is a …

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 …

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 …