Claudia Irizarry Aponte

NYC Health + Hospitals’ 2,500 residents have been working under an expired labor agreement since their most recent one lapsed more than two years ago.

Hundreds of New York laborers have received papers that let them get on-the-books jobs under a Biden administration policy that protects workplace whistleblowers and aids prosecutors.

Non-union workers remain most at risk of fatal falls, collapses and other calamities, while safety enforcement staffing lags.

Several immigrant women have filed complaints with state labor authorities alleging they work 13-hour days for far less than minimum wage, curing leaves sold at smoke shops to be rolled with weed.

Complaints at HotHead Grabba exposed by THE CITY lead to Occupational Health and Safety Administration and state Department of Labor investigations. Workers allege they are getting sick working 13-hour days for subminimum pay.

The union representing more than 100 public defenders and other workers at the nonprofit Mobilization for Justice say management's approach to the face-off has been “hurting our clients in court.”

The proposed kiosk, spurred by delivery workers and funded with the help of the Senate majority leader, is deemed too modern by local stakeholders also concerned about crowds.

The deal, still pending ratification by union members, would make the Association of Legislative Employees the first union of its kind in New York.

Weeks after THE CITY exposed a Brooklyn sweatshop where women say they got sick processing tobacco sold in local smoke shops, two former workers at a Queens HotHead Grabba factory filed wage theft complaints with the state.

Work stoppages are illegal for New York public servants, but 250-plus professors signed a pledge to not work on Wednesday in support of students pressing demands to “divest from all companies complicit in the imperialist-zionist genocide.”