Charles E. Hughes, who rose up from a segregated boyhood in Georgia, where at age 10 he picked cotton and plowed land with a mule, to become the politically influential president of District Council 37's largest local, then crashed in disgrace and went to prison for embezzling more than $2 million of members' dues money, died Aug. 30 of a heart attack. He was 68 years old. More...

It isn't just because the Fire Department lost 343 members on 9/11 to the Police Department's 23 or the Port Authority Police's 37 that the agency's annual remembrance is the chilliest. More...

With the city's excessed Teacher pool close to 2,000 and the number of vacant jobs in schools at 1,800 at the end of August, despite a hiring freeze in most subject areas, union presidents blamed the Department of Education, citing varying flaws in the agency's hiring practices. More...

A New York City Transit subway crew has been given a 20-day suspension without pay for allowing a child to ride in the train's cabs, a punishment a Transport Workers Union Local 100 official involved in the case said was too harsh. More...

The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators has filed suit against the Department of Education and Mayor Bloomberg for failing to honor an arbitration award that restored parking permits to its members. The award was issued Aug. 7, a year after the CSA contested the Mayor's original edict removing parking permits for many city workers. More...