Days after the state’s high court OK’d city officials’ yearslong bid to switch 250,000 retired municipal workers to a Medicare Advantage plan, Mayor Adams has pulled the plug on the effort — for now.

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Large-scale immigration raids at packinghouses and fields in California are threatening businesses that supply much of the country's food, farm bureaus say. Dozens of farmworkers have been arrested ...

To the editor: Two damning examples why Andrew Cuomo is unfit to hold public office are the sexual harassment and nursing home scandals. These should have been career-ending for the former governor, ...

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, ...

Astoria, Queens, is now a tortuous asphalt maze of unforgiving closed streets, bright green paint, white lines, warning signs and merciless traffic arrows pointing and entrapping motorists into a ...

Workers on Comptroller Brad Lander’s campaign for mayor have unionized with the Campaign Workers Guild and agreed to a contract with the mayoral candidate securing a salary floor, a healthcare stipend ...

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 ...

This story has been updated to include comments from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Members of three American Federation for Government Employees locals rallied outside the Veterans ...

The New York State Nurses Association slammed a decision by NewYork-Presbyterian to cut 2 percent of its workforce, layoffs that would result in about 1,000 health care workers losing their jobs. The ...

In what likely were the final arguments in the years-long battle over whether the city is obligated to provide its 250,000 municipal retirees with no-cost Medicare and supplemental insurance, ...