Duncan Freeman

Governor Kathy Hochul has signed into law three union-supported pieces of legislation that advocates say will protect warehouse workers from injury, support car dealerships and their workers statewide and regulate state agencies’ use of artificial intelligence.

Incoming FDNY firefighters at their graduation ceremony Dec. 27.

On Dec. 18, New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced a long-sought triumph for 9/11 first responders: they had secured funding for the World Trade Center Health Program through 2040 in a proposed bipartisan budget deal. The...

With the congestion pricing program south of 60th street in Manhattan kicking off Sunday, the head of a union representing FDNY EMS employees is advising his members who work at three stations within the tolling areas to request transfers out of...

When Firefighter Brendan Gaffney arrived with the rest of Ladder Company 36 to the lobby of an Inwood building that had caught fire from an exploding lithium-ion battery, he was informed by residents in the building’s lobby that there were people...

FDNY Lieutenant John Vanderstar after being awarded the Medal of Valor by President Joe Biden at the White House Friday. He and another among the city’s Bravest, Firefighter Brendan Gaffney, were among eight recipients of the medal, the nation’s highest award for valor by a public safety officer.

President Joe Biden signed legislation Sunday that will ensure around 2.5 million public sector workers reap the entirety of their Social Security benefits. The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision, and the...

Almost a year after taking a near-unanimous vote to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, workers at the off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company are ratcheting up pressure on management and threatening to strike if...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last week announced the indictment of Kendis Paul, the owner of KEP Construction, on charges of stealing $67,000 from 10 former employees working at an Upper West Side construction site from September 2023...

Following the reelection late last year of Mike Carrube to a third five-year term as president of the Subway Surface Supervisors Association, union members are raising the alarm about what they say is the union leaders' quashing of dissent. The...