Crystal Lewis

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...

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 Professional Staff Congress has reached a tentative contract agreement with the City University of New York that would provide 13.4 percent in compounded raises and increase the minimum pay for adjuncts by 29 percent over the course of the...

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 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...

Despite safe staffing laws enacted by the state in recent years, a recent study from the New York State Nurses Association found that just a third of surveyed hospitals complied with the state’s mandate to publicly post staffing plans in all...

Doctors at four hospitals within the city’s public hospital system announced Thursday that they will go on an unfair labor practice strike starting Jan. 13 over concerns about an “understaffing crisis.” Last month, physicians at Jacobi Medical...

Doctors at four hospitals within the city’s public hospital system announced Thursday that they will go on an unfair labor practice strike starting Jan. 13 over concerns about an “understaffing crisis.” Last month, physicians at Jacobi Medical...

Legislation that aims to ensure city employees who move to a different agency don’t experience a lapse in their healthcare coverage was signed into law by Mayor Eric Adams Monday. The law will require that city agencies expedite the process of...

About 90 percent of the members of the Professional Staff Congress who voted have chosen to ratify a contract agreement with the City University of New York that will provide compounded raises of 13.4 percent and a $3,000 ratification bonus, the...