1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (410+ words) Malik Hardy, a group facilitator and discharge planner at the Fortune Society said the completion of the card check Aug. 11 was “awesome news.” “This is an opportunity for us to be able to move the beautiful place where we work…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (146+ words) The NYPD has seized 3,259 guns from New York City streets so far this year, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Thursday, as the department credited its gun seizures and multi-agency enforcement efforts with contributing to record-low levels of shootings and murders....

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (112+ words) An intra-District Council 37 feud over bargaining, rank-and-file democracy and union reform escalated this week when the presidents of two city-worker unions filed internal charges that seek the removal of the president of a third union, alleging she’s directed an “intimidation…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (640+ words) Frustrated by a lack of progress on bargaining with management for a new contract, the union representing over 160 frontline healthcare workers at Planned Parenthood in the greater New York City area voted last week to conduct a lunchtime picket line…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (690+ words) Workers fan out before dawn to clip clusters of grapes destined to be transformed into Italy's prized Franciacorta sparkling wine a full 10 days earlier than anticipated, as scorching temperatures brought the fruit to maturation earlier than ever. Climate change is…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (982+ words) Artificial intelligence has produced a range of reactions across New York City s labor movement. Some unions have embraced the technology as a tool that can support workers, while others have fought to limit its use where it threatens jobs…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (382+ words) “These are decisions that adjunct faculty face on a regular basis,” Palmer said. The letter sent to NYU president Linda Mills was signed by over two dozen members of the City Council, the borough presidents of both Manhattan and Brooklyn…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (491+ words) As artificial intelligence threatens to destabilize the working lives of millions of Americans, workers across the country are increasingly turning to unions to demand protections — and new polling suggests they trust few other institutions to do the job. Beyond the…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (97+ words) The MTA is hiring power electric maintainers at a starting salary of $38.50 per hour for a 40-hour work week increasing to $45.29 per hour in the sixth year of service. Stein's $570K pension no surprise to lifeguards who knew him as the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (168+ words) The eye-popping $570,419 pension compensation raked in by former lifeguard union leader Peter Stein last year laid out in a report from the Empire Center for Public Policy came as no surprise to his foes in the city's lifeguard corps who…...