Two days before Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn announced a budget agreement that allocated $17 million to the Fire Department to keep 16 fire companies running, Council Fire and Criminal Justice Services Committee Chair James Vacca was in Staten Island protesting the proposed closing of Engine Co. 161. More...

Before voting came to a close June 20 in the Transport Workers Union Local 100 general officer election, members in the Maintenance of Way Division received a flyer from the incumbent United Invincible slate featuring photos of some of their candidates and some from the dissident Take Back Our Union slate. More...

Two Correction Department officials have resigned in the wake of a scandal in which they were accused of approving a 60-guest bar mitzvah for a wealthy inmate's son at the Manhattan Detention Complex last December. Peter Curcio, who was the department's Chief of Facility Operations, resigned June 15 after he failed to report the party to his supervisors. More...

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bus workers will adapt to two dozen new work-rule changes under the contract imposed by an arbitration panel earlier this month, including a reduction in the time drivers can be on the road without passengers and the option for management to replace drivers while they are in the middle of their routes. More...