The Chief

07/03/2025

After 45 years of working at the same Upper West Side building, doorman Pete Rodriguez bid goodbye to his second home and the people who live there.

Pete Rodriguez didn’t sleep well. When he woke up for work at 6 a.m. on that Tuesday, he had a bagel, a banana and an iced tea. Rodriguez doesn’t usually eat much of anything for breakfast. But this day was different — he was retiring after 45...

07/01/2025

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06/26/2025

'Absolutely epic.' New York City unions and labor leaders are taking stock of what to many marks a repudiation of establishment candidates, not least Andrew Cuomo, and even a long-awaited makeover of the party.

With Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary for Mayor all but certain following former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s concession of the race, unions are taking stock of what was to many an unforeseen upset. Most...

06/18/2025

Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA's OT champ earned over $500k in total pay last year — bringing his 2-year total at the authority to $1 million+

Nearly two dozen MTA workers collected over $200,000 in overtime alone last year, with one worker at the authority topping $308,000 in just OT, bringing his total salary to more than $500,000, according to an analysis of the authority payroll data...

06/01/2025

UFT - United Federation of Teachers' Michael Mulgrew bests two challengers to secure sixth term as union's president.

The president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, handily won a sixth consecutive three-year term as head of the 200,000-member union, this time beating two challengers.  Mulgrew and the Unity Caucus candidates received 54...

05/16/2025

NJ TRANSIT train engineers have gone on strike, halting all NJ Transit commuter trains.

New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike early Friday, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home. The walkout comes after the latest...

05/01/2025

For six long days and nights, Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA/NYC Transit Authority crews labored at ground zero following the 9/11 attacks. Many would fall ill as a result. Thousands of other first responders who worked the pile were granted disability pension benefits. The NYCTA workers are still awaiting theirs.

Philip Ronnie Shpiller retired from his 30-year career with the city as an emergency-response plumber with the New York City Transit Authority in 2012. But in a very real sense, the work never left him. Shpiller and dozens of his colleagues...

04/22/2025

The head of the A Better Contract slate who is opposing the long-term leadership of the United Federation of Teachers has filed a lawsuit alleging that a change allowing in-person voting in the union’s upcoming election is not permitted under the UFT's constitution.

One of the slates opposing the long-term leadership of the United Federation of Teachers has filed a lawsuit alleging that a change allowing in-person voting in the union’s upcoming election wasn't permitted under the union's constitution. The...

04/16/2025

Sergeants Benevolent Association, NYC Mayor's Office finally chisel contract deal. A separate agreement spells out voluntary 12-hour tour pilot program.

After nearly two years of hard bargaining, the union representing NYPD sergeants and the city have chiseled a tentative contract agreement. The retroactive 5-year deal, which will be put to a vote of the Sergeants Benevolent Association's rank...

04/15/2025

Sergeants Benevolent Association balks at 12-hour tour pilot program, leaving contract discussions with NYC Mayor's Office deadlocked.

The NYPD sergeant’s union is pushing back on efforts by city officials to institute a pilot program that would have its members work 12-shifts as a condition to settle outstanding contract issues. The president of the Sergeants Benevolent...

04/10/2025

The Trump administration gutted the agency overseeing the World Trade Center Health Program last week, threatening the ability for first responders and 9/11 survivors to get needed health care, advocates and union leaders say.

The Trump administration fired the administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program and gutted the agency that oversees the program this week as part of its larger personnel and funding cuts across the federal government. Upon learning of...

04/09/2025

New York City Department of Sanitation's Strongest pay discrimination suit against the city gets greenlighted.

A pay and discrimination lawsuit by 13 current and former Department of Sanitation workers against the city will go ahead following a federal judge’s finding that the plaintiffs have standing under the city’s human rights law and federal...