Unions

Queens

‘Drenched in Fecal Matter’: Feds Probe Working Conditions at LaGuardia Cargo Company

May 24, 2023, 5:22 p.m.May 24, 2023, 5:22 p.m.

Swissport employees allege they are exposed to health and safety dangers inside and outside planes.

Queens

Elmhurst Resident Doctors End Strike, Reach Deal with Mount Sinai on Pay Parity

May 24, 2023, 4:54 p.m.May 24, 2023, 4:54 p.m.

The pending agreement would pay the public Queens hospital’s residents as much as their Upper East Side private peers.

Mount Sinai residents working at Elmhurst Hospital strike over pay parity.

Health and Hospitals

Elmhurst Hospital Doctors Strike, Protesting Pay Gap With Mount Sinai

May 22, 2023, 5:50 p.m.May 22, 2023, 8:30 p.m.

Medical residents on the picket line in Queens demand that Mount Sinai, which runs the residents’ program, compensate them on par with their Upper East Side peers.

Labor

Manhattan Starbucks Workers Seek to Oust Union, With Help From Group That Argued ‘Janus’ Decision

May 11, 2023, 2:36 p.m.May 11, 2023, 8:34 p.m.

The Reserve Roastery employees’ petition to decertify, which is pending a vote, comes days after workers in Rochester and Buffalo also moved to eject Starbucks Workers United.

Campaign 2023

Innovation QNS Fallout Rains on LIC City Council Contest

May 9, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 8:05 a.m.

Incumbent Julie Won gets snubbed by a key union coalition after she said building workers cut a dubious deal.

An Elmhurst Hospital doctor attends a ceremony held by the Queens World Film Festival honoring health care workers.

Labor

Doctors at Elmhurst Hospital Vote to Authorize Strike, Following Jamaica and Flushing Peers

May 3, 2023, 2:03 p.m.May 3, 2023, 5:11 p.m.

Actions pre-approved by interns and residents who staff three Queens hospitals could see physicians walk off the job in New York City for the first time in a generation.

Hospitals

Mount Sinai Doctors Protest Lower Pay for West Side and Queens Hospitals

April 26, 2023, 8:08 p.m.April 26, 2023, 8:08 p.m.

Even as non-union medical residents at the system’s Upper East Side main hospital get a raise, union — including those at public Elmhurst Hospital — work for less, without a contract.