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Law

Legal Aid Society, attorneys to continue contract negotiations as union considers strike

Posted on July 1, 2025

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2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani gets backing of city’s largest labor group after primary win

Posted on July 1, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Behind the picket line: Filmmakers document Alamo Drafthouse workers’ battle for better pay

Barnes & Noble workers secure contracts that include major safety wins for retail workers, industry setting wages and healthcare.

Politics

Barnes & Noble workers put it in the books with new union contracts for NYC locations in historic deal

Posted on March 18, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Cash-strapped Brooklyn Museum delays layoffs, awaiting additional City Council funding

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Brooklyn Paper

Nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn receive immediate raise after reaching contract agreement, avoiding strike

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Brooklyn Paper

Nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn prepare to strike as contract negotiations continue

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Theater

Crew strike halts Atlantic Theater Productions amid contract dispute

Posted on January 14, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Park Slope Starbucks location to close at end of January, months after unionizing

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Sponsored

Metropolitan Park: A catalyst for union job creation in Queens

Posted on May 22, 2024

32BJ members gather during a strike authorization vote rally outside Bronx Supreme Court on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

Bronx Times

Bronx Realty Advisory Board agrees not to reopen residential union contracts, avoiding strike

John Santos, secretary treasurer of the 32BJ union, speaks during a strike authorization vote rally outside Bronx Supreme Court on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

Bronx Times

Bronx residential workers threaten to strike if BRAB reopens contracts

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Brooklyn Paper

Nitehawk Cinema workers unionize, accuse management of ‘aggressive union-busting campaign’

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News

‘Thrilled and excited’: Uptown Barnes & Noble workers join nationwide retail union

Posted on March 15, 2024

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QNS

Mob boss sentenced for shaking down Queens-based construction union: Feds

"No justice, no peace": Crown Heights tenants are fighting to take control of their building after years of no repairs by slumlord and city agencies.

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn tenants rally for control of their building after years of no repairs

Office cleaning workers rally for new contract to avoid strike

Business

Strike averted: NYC office cleaning workers agree to new contract through 2024

Posted on December 28, 2023

After pandemic-related layoffs, SEIU 32BJ cleaners rally for fair pay and healthcare as contract negotiations begin.

Brooklyn Paper

After pandemic-related layoffs, SEIU 32BJ cleaners rally for fair pay and healthcare as contract negotiations begin

Politics

‘Barbenheimer’ was a boon to movie theaters and a headache for many workers. So they’re unionizing

Posted on October 15, 2023

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QNS

Union members picket outside Ozanam Hall in Bayside, demanding new contract and better pay

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Op-Ed

Op-ed | Link5G creates 21st century jobs for union workers

Posted on August 16, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Defender Services union pickets after 2 years without contract

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Business

Workers at a popular pizzeria in Brooklyn form union, first pizza restaurant in New York City to do so

Posted on July 27, 2023

Politics

UPS reaches tentative contract with 340,000 unionized workers potentially dodging calamitous strike

Posted on July 25, 2023

Business

Amazon union splinters, former members sue and call for a new election of union officers

Posted on July 11, 2023

Barboncino workers in Brooklyn look to unionize

Brooklyn

Slice of solidarity: Brooklyn restaurant workers move closer to becoming New York City’s first unionized pizzeria

Posted on July 11, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Employees at popular Williamsburg’s Vital Climbing Gym move to unionize

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Broadway

Battle brews between ‘Here Lies Love’ and musicians union over use of recorded tracks instead of live orchestra

Posted on May 31, 2023

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Bronx Times

‘We work for peanuts’: UFT members rally for ‘fair’ contract in the Bronx

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Greenwich Village

Triangle Fire Memorial coming to Greenwich Village this fall

Posted on May 17, 2023

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News

Public nurses hold rally demanding pay raises, call for parity with private sector

Posted on May 11, 2023

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Put it in the books: Union Square Barnes & Noble workers file for union election

Posted on April 28, 2023

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Astoria Post

Fired Starbucks worker behind Astoria store’s unionization gets reinstated — and $21,000 in back pay

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Bronx Times

BREAKING: Montefiore residents vote to unionize with 82% supermajority vote

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CUNY staff union makes contract demands known ahead of budget request

Posted on December 6, 2022

Business

Judge orders Amazon to stop retaliations against organizers

Posted on November 21, 2022

Business

Starbucks workers plan strikes at more than 100 US stores

Posted on November 17, 2022

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Parsons School of Design faculty go on strike amid contract negotiations

Posted on November 16, 2022

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QNS

Maspeth Starbucks store becomes third Queens location to file petition for union

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Bronx Times

Montefiore rejects call to voluntarily recognize union for resident physicians

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Politics

Op-ed | Working people at the helm this Labor Day

Posted on September 5, 2022

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City cuts Staten Island Ferry schedules amid mass worker no-shows

Posted on August 3, 2022

Amazon Labour Union (ALU) signage is seen on a bus shelter near an Amazon facility in Staten Island, New York City

Business

Amazon, union face off in a rematch election in New York

Posted on May 1, 2022

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks next to Amazon Labour Union (ALU) organizer Christian Smalls and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at an Amazon facility during a rally in Staten Island.

Business

Bernie Sanders, AOC rally on Staten Island with Amazon union ahead of second vote

Posted on April 24, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Amazon workers arrive to observe the vote count to unionize at the NLRB office in Brooklyn, New York City

Business

Amazon union leader Smalls went from rapper to unlikely voice of protest

Posted on April 1, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Amazon’s JFK8 distribution center in Staten Island, New York City

Business

Amazon’s NY union vote count continues, labor leads

Posted on April 1, 2022

Workers stand in line to cast ballots for a union election at Amazon's JFK8 distribution center, in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S. March 25, 2022.

Business

Amazon workers in New York begin voting in union election

Posted on March 25, 2022

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Hundreds of union employees protest alleged exploitative working conditions at Chelsea Terminal Warehouse

Posted on February 17, 2022

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Film screening spotlights forthcoming documentary ‘Miss Simone & The Queens of Stonewall’