While the threat of a mass public defender strike gridlocking New York courthouses appeared to be mostly averted, the city isn’t out of the woods yet after a public defender union went on strike on Friday and as another threatened to follow on Monday.
Read MoreThe threat of a mass citywide public defender strike wreaking havoc on the city’s courthouses appeared to be averted on Tuesday after striking attorneys reached a deal on a new labor contract with the city’s second-largest public defender group.
Read MoreOver 500 attorneys and legal staff at the city’s second-largest public defender organization went on strike Thursday.
Read MoreUnionized attorneys at the second-largest public defender organization in the city voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike this week, increasing the risk of hundreds of lawyers and support staff walking off the job and hampering criminal courts in Queens and Brooklyn.
Read MoreOver 1,000 attorneys could go on strike as early as July 1 unless the city makes considerable investment into their public defender organizations, union leaders warned on Wednesday.
Read MoreWith just over a month until their contract expires, labor talks at Brooklyn Defender Services have stalled, prompting union attorneys to accuse management of bad-faith bargaining and raise the possibility of a strike.
Read MoreQueens residential building services workers joined more than 34,000 porters, doorpersons, superintendents, handypersons and resident managers across the five boroughs as they began negotiating a new labor agreement with building owners throughout the city this month.
Read MoreA Queens city councilmember proposed legislation this month that would ban Amazon and other companies from using third-party delivery drivers, shielding the company from any responsibility over the drivers’ employment.
Read MoreThe Legal Aid Society reached a tentative labor agreement with its attorneys’ union Wednesday afternoon, likely ending the threat of what would have been the largest public defender strike the city has seen in three decades.
Read MoreA large cohort of Uber and Lyft drivers held a strike outside LaGuardia Airport on Sunday where no pickups were made as the drivers protested for higher wages amid inflation.
Read MoreAn Astoria movie studio backed by actor Robert De Niro is almost complete. “We're going to attract all of the film industry,” the mayor said after the final beam of the studio’s structure was installed. “To hell with California.”
Read More“It's really disgusting that we're even being put in this situation, to be always trying to survive, scraping by with a law degree and with the amount of experience that we have,” said one Legal Aid Society attorney. Contract negotiations between the attorneys’ union and the Legal Aid Society have been ongoing for seven months.
Read MoreHow did Steinway & Sons end up in Astoria? The answer is tied up in the greater history of the American labor struggle, particularly the emerging union and eight-hour work day workers’ movements of Gilded Age America.
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