The Assembly Labor Committee has emerged as a bottleneck for unions’ top legislative priorities.
A bill to increase kidney donation rates is stuck in the “traffic jam” of the Assembly.
Adams promised they’d be different. But a roster compiled by New York Focus shows that officers who trained for the new teams allegedly beat, harassed, and illegally arrested people while previously working on plainclothes teams.
Buffalo workers were the first to unionize - but labor law went unenforced during their elections.
At the urging of the correction officers union, the prison agency is restricting packages to private vendors that charge steep markups and have limited selections.
After New York Focus reported that the elections board wasn’t enforcing a landmark transparency law, it sent delinquent donors a letter requesting that they comply. Thousands did within weeks.
Black and Latino nonunion flaggers on public construction projects say they’re paid just a third of wages they’re legally entitled to.
“Expect delays, expect secondary screening, expect frustration, and expect to miss your train from time to time.”
A bill in the state legislature would prohibit police from interrogating minors before they consulted with a lawyer.
Before the Russian-funded delivery startup collapsed, Buyk sold itself as a way for workers to escape the gig economy. Former workers say it failed to deliver.
The state legislature has passed a measure intended to counter a court ruling that made it easier for lenders to win cases against homeowners.
Legislators opposed to a bill enacting a temporary moratorium on proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining are warning that it could harm New Yorkers often excluded from traditional financial markets, sources say.
After New York Focus reported on illegal contributions to candidate Russell Squire, his campaign announced it would return the money.
The state’s grand plan to convert unused hotels into affordable housing hasn’t gotten off the ground. Lawmakers just boosted funding — but developers and housing advocates say that won’t help without lifting onerous zoning restrictions.
Officials routinely refuse to send requests for medical release to the state parole board, frustrating advocates and raising questions about the murky criteria for medical release.
“I told the workers beforehand that they would lose based on the ‘numbers.’ They said they knew the workers. They were right!”
A comprehensive tracker of the issues at stake in New York’s budget.
The final budget made changes to bail law, discovery law, pre-arraignment detention, involuntary commitment and more.
The legislature wants to spend $250 million to combat homelessness. Hochul says it’ll actually cost $6 billion.
Rather than try to improve Hochul’s proposal, some environmentalists want to scrap it and instead concentrate on a forthcoming bill from Assemblymember Steve Englebright.