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09/05/2026

Union leaders are pushing back against a Municipal Labor Committee effort to expand participation in a health data-sharing program under city workers' new healthcare plan that 60 percent of New York City Public Employees’ PPO members are participating in.

One union criticized the MLC's push to raise that figure to 75 percent, saying a recent missive sent to union leaders included a "veiled threat."

Union leaders are pushing back against a Municipal Labor Committee effort to expand participation in a health data-sharing program, raising concerns about member consent, insurers’ financial incentives and the potential use of health information...

09/04/2026

CWA Local 1180's Gloria Middleton will be the next chair of the Municipal Labor Committee, the umbrella organization of public-sector unions in NYC.

Middleton was urged into the job by Henry Garrido, and she will not run for reelection in November for the Local 1180 presidency.

Gloria Middleton will become chairperson of the umbrella organization of public-sector unions in New York City this month after a leadership slate with her at the head faced no challenge from members of the body's executive board....

09/04/2026

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09/02/2026

Bobby Eustace is now the president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association representing over 8,000 firefighters at the FDNY.

He faced no challengers for the post in an internal union election in July.

Robert "Bobby" Eustace began his term as president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association Aug. 1 after winning the election to the top post of the union representing more than 8,500 active firefighters at the FDNY and 15,000 retired...

08/28/2026

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08/26/2026

NYC Office of Labor Relations Commissioner Renee Campion will retire Dec. 1.

She informed OLR staff of her decision to retire on Tuesday.

Campion has worked at the agency for 24 years and was made the first woman commissioner of OLR in 2019.

The city's labor negotiators will soon have a new leader. Renee Campion, commissioner of New York City's Office of Labor Relations since 2019, will retire Dec. 1. A 24-year veteran of the office, Campion informed staff of her plans on...

08/26/2026

Michael Mulgrew's manuever through the City Council to win paraprofessionals $10,000 bonus checks is the latest instance of a growing trend of municipal unions finding ways to circumvent pattern bargaining.

Unions representing nurses, FDNY fire protection inspectors and now paraprofessionals have all found ways around the restrictive tradition in the last three years.

Now the leaders of Local 2507 and Local 3621, two unions representing EMTs, paramedics and EMS officers, are hinging their hopes for pay parity on a lawsuit filed three years ago as a key means to win their members raises outside of collective bargaining entirely.

08/25/2026

A Department of Investigation probe into potentially fraudulent workers’ compensation claims by city correction officers contributed to saving the city approximately $175 million in costs over the past two fiscal years, according to DOI.

https://www.thechiefleader.com/stories/crackdown-on-phony-doc-claims-saves-city-175m,57440

08/24/2026

A bill that would compel the New York City Department of Emergency Management to issue emergency notifications any time the FDNY's EMS service has more than 25 pending ambulance dispatches was introduced this month by City Council Member Joann Ariola, chair of the Council's Committee on Fire and Emergency Management.

A bill that would compel the New York City Department of Emergency Management to issue a emergency notifications any time the FDNY's EMS service has more than 25 pending ambulance dispatches was introduced this month. Proposed by City Council...

08/24/2026

Clad in bright orange ponchos, construction workers, labor leaders and elected officials braved the rain Thursday to rally against unsafe and exploitative labor practices they said are occurring at Kingsland Commons, a city-funded affordable housing project in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Clad in bright orange ponchos, construction workers, labor leaders and elected officials braved the rain Thursday to rally against unsafe and exploitative labor practices they said are occurring at Kingsland Commons, a city-funded affordable...