Hot Strike Summer for NYC's Public Defenders
Neighborhood Defender Service and the Bronx Defenders are on the city's longest-running public defender strikes since 1982.
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Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty.
Neighborhood Defender Service and the Bronx Defenders are on the city's longest-running public defender strikes since 1982.
“It’s really hard to feel like you’re having a conversation in good faith about economic equity with someone who owns two second homes,” one employee told Hell Gate.
Attorneys for Neighborhood Defender Service are threatening to go on strike over issues like higher wages and paid health insurance.
Reporters at Schneps Media, which includes amNew York, Queens Courier, and the Brooklyn Paper, say they can’t afford to live on their salaries.
The ProPublica Guild says negotiations for its first union contract have stalled over "basic" worker protections and guidelines over the use of AI.
Nurses have seemingly won agreements that will give them a lot, but not all, of what they were after.
"The governor appears neutral, but she's not."
After some eye-opening emails came to light, the National Labor Relations Board charged Snøhetta Architecture with violating federal labor law for employing an illegal union-busting campaign.
"As a resident really nothing you do is possible without the nurses that you work with."
Mayor Mamdani and Senator Sanders braved the cold—briefly—to drop in on a picket line outside Mount Sinai West.