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Local 3621 VP: FDNY EMS Is Losing Up to 15 Workers a Week. Cardiac Arrest Response Times Are Doubling.

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Anthony Almojera, VP of Local 3621 and a lieutenant paramedic, says FDNY EMS is hemorrhaging 10 to 15 workers every week...

July 23, 2026

Broadway Cleaners Win $5/Hour Raise from the Broadway League After Strike Vote

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SEIU Local 32BJ reached a tentative agreement July 18 with the Broadway League covering cleaners and porters at more tha...

July 20, 2026

Marvel Comics Told Its 100-Plus NYC Publishing Staff to Relocate to Burbank by July 2027 or Go

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Disney is pulling Marvel Comics out of Midtown Manhattan after nearly 90 years — and giving just over 100 NYC-based publ...

July 19, 2026

Next Mile NYC Adds 11,000 on Probation to CDL Pipeline That Averaged $73,573 on Placement

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Mayor Mamdani's office expanded the city's commercial trucking CDL training program on July 16 to cover more than 11,000...

July 18, 2026

FDNY EMS Contract, Expired Since 2022, Is Now Mamdani's to Settle

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The contract covering roughly 4,300 FDNY EMTs and paramedics — who start at $39,386 a year, about $18.94 an hour — has b...

July 18, 2026

Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services Among Six UAW Shops That Voted to Strike

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Workers at six UAW Local 2325 public defender and social service offices — including The Bronx Defenders and Brooklyn De...

July 18, 2026

MTA Bus Company Sues TWU Local 100 to Stop Arbitration Over Suspended Operator's Disciplinary File

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Filed July 14 in Manhattan Supreme Court, the 17-page suit turns on whether MTA Bus can send a worker's disciplinary rec...

July 15, 2026

FDNY EMT Trainees Start at $36,330 — About 35 Cents Less on the Dollar Than a New Firefighter at the Same Department

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NYC citywide payroll records show FDNY Emergency Medical Specialist trainees earned $36,330 in base salary in fiscal yea...

July 15, 2026

Fired NYC Council Intern Mina Farahmand Files Federal Suit Seeking $17/Hour for Hundreds

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Mina Farahmand, 21, who says the City Council fired her for organizing unpaid interns, filed a class action this week in...

July 13, 2026

7,000 Haitian Care Workers in New York Face July 24 Work-Authorization Cutoff

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Work authorization for roughly 7,000 Haitian home health aides, nursing assistants, and caregivers in New York State exp...

July 12, 2026

The MTA Is Trying to Raise Healthcare Costs for the Near-Minimum-Wage Job New Yorkers Wait Years to Get

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The Wall Street Journal identified MTA subway car cleaning jobs — which start near NYC's $17/hour minimum wage — as cove...

July 11, 2026

Montefiore's AI Vendor Cuts 12 Bronx Utilization Review Nurses as Contract Safeguards Prove Toothless

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Twelve utilization review nurses at Montefiore Medical Center's Bronx campuses lose their jobs today — 45 days after rec...

July 11, 2026

NYC Added 58,000 Jobs in a Year. Most of the Growth Was Low-Wage Health Care — and College Grads Under 28 Are Now More Likely to Be Out of Work Than Peers Without Degrees

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A CUNY Economic Studies Group analysis finds NYC unemployment at 5.4% in May — above pre-pandemic levels — as new job gr...

July 10, 2026

The Fix for NYC's Private-Sector Heat Gap Is in Albany. It's Been Stuck There for Years.

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A 1989 appellate ruling on state field preemption may explain why Mayor Mamdani's heat executive order couldn't require...

July 2, 2026

27 Schneps Media Workers Head to NLRB Vote July 24 After Company Rejects NewsGuild Recognition

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Editorial workers at NYC's largest local newspaper chain — amNY, Brooklyn Paper, Bronx Times, and 30-plus outlets — will...

July 2, 2026