Below is a roundup of City University of New York (CUNY) exams leading to public service positions. The application period for new civil service exams generally begins on the first Wednesday of each ...

The city is accepting applications for mason’s helpers through July 22. The current minimum salary is $46.82 per hour for a 35-hour work week. The application fee is $91. The work Mason's helpers, ...

To the editor: A few follow-up points to "Free to Choose" (The Chief, Letters, July 4) and "The Greediest Generation” (The Chief, Letters, June 27) An online commenter replied to the former this way: ...

To the editor: In the first half of 2025, the NYPD reported a nearly 50-percent increase in retirement fillings. That exodus follows the departures in 2024 of 2,900 officers and the hiring of just ...

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The AFSCME local representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong strike that halted residential curbside trash pickup and affected ...

Days after a record-breaking heat wave in New Jersey, the Legislature recessed for the summer without moving legislation that would mandate protections for workers who spend hours outdoors in the ...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary has upended the city’s political landscape. Critics dismissed his policy proposals — city-owned grocery stores, free buses, expansive rent ...

Researchers at the city and state’s public universities affected by cuts to federal grant funding urged state congressional leaders to oppose further cuts to research funding proposed in President ...

The city has approved $1 million in funding to launch a pilot “Wellness & Peer Support Program” for EMS workers in the five boroughs. The funding included in the fiscal year 2026 budget, which was ...

Brooklyn Museum workers rallied outside their workplace in March to protest planned layoffs. The layoffs were delayed that month after two unions reached agreements with management and are now fully ...

Murat M. Akaydin is a volunteer with Veterans for All Voters, serves as board chair of the Generation Vote Education Fund and is pursuing a law degree at CUNY School of Law. I’m a native New Yorker, ...