No state pursues workers for overpaid unemployment benefits as aggressively as New York. A proposed reform is colliding with New York’s own repayment problem.

In New York, unemployment recipients can be found guilty of fraud even if they thought their information was true. The state demands repayment at the highest rate in the country.

A Rochester man lost his job while his daughter went through cancer treatment. He’s struggled to communicate with the DOL for months.

Under Roberta Reardon, the agency has recovered less and less of workers’ stolen wages. Meanwhile, staff resign, and replacements lag.

The law was supposed to deliver safer staffing ratios. Instead, it raised tensions at one in four New York hospitals.

1199 SIEU says it wants to end 24-hour shifts - but it has opposed city and state bills that would do so, and some question the sincerity of its objections.

A plan to move a family medicine clinic in a low-income Bronx neighborhood has sparked backlash from patients and staff.

The Assembly Labor Committee has emerged as a bottleneck for unions’ top legislative priorities.

Buffalo workers were the first to unionize - but labor law went unenforced during their elections.

The state health department has delayed implementing a landmark staffing law, as nurses say they’re overwhelmed and hospitals point to a workforce shortage.

An NLRB ruling on a grievance made by striking Columbia student workers could suggest the board’s approach to a major question about the legal status of student workers.

The union’s focus on direct action reflects skepticism that an incoming staffing law will significantly increase staffing ratios.