This week's edition of The Chief includes an Op-ed by District Council 37 #UnionStrong member Honda Wang 王宏达 on artificial intelligence. "For city workers like myself, the city’s embrace of AI appears to be geared towards an unspoken goal: cutting costs by cutting jobs." thechiefleader.com/stories/get-ai…

"Our membership will not be intimidated into abandoning our core principles, including advancing the interests of working people worldwide, by this blatant attack on organized labor.” thechiefleader.com/stories/uaw-la…

INBOX: Association of Legislative Employees has reached the union's first-ever tentative agreement with New York City Council. It includes raises in pattern with other public sector employees, establishes both grievance and disciplinary procedures as well as limited overtime compensation.

New York City Transit/MTA workers who took part in the WTC cleanup following 9/11 and got ill as a result are still awaiting the disability benefits granted to other civil service employees. thechiefleader.com/stories/city-t…

In a significant setback for the Mayor Eric Adams’s effort to switch municipal retirees to a cost-saving private health plan, the UFT has withdrawn its support for the plan, saying city officials have been unwilling to address unions’ concerns. thechiefleader.com/stories/uft-wi…

#NYC municipal workers fired for not complying with the city’s Covid mandates look to New York City Council to get their jobs back without losing seniority. thechiefleader.com/stories/unvacc…

A last-minute infusion of New York City Council cash was not enough to save the jobs of dozens of community composting workers. thechiefleader.com/stories/restor…

Unscrupulous contractors in the city are employing recently arrived Central American immigrants, most of them women, on construction jobs and then not paying them. The Workers Justice Project ✊🏾❤️ said dozens of workers are owed a total of more than $100k. thechiefleader.com/stories/wage-t…

The CDC’s World Trade Center Health Program faces another funding shortfall, but a bipartisan bill would permanently fund it through 2090. thechiefleader.com/stories/wtc-he…

Six union officials were arrested Thursday after they blocked traffic in front of a developer’s East 26th Street offices. The arrests followed a boisterous protest of the developer’s use of a shady demolition firm. thechiefleader.com/stories/labore…

“State’s temporary farmworkers win right to unionize” by @richkhav for The Chief has been selected for this week's #PowerAtWork Weekly Download. Subscribe, and have it delivered directly to your inbox, every week. poweratwork.us/theweeklydownl…

Surges in NLRB elections and increased pro-union votes have created a major shift in worker power across the United States! Read Zeno Minotti's newest piece for Power At Work at poweratwork.us/the-union-surge to get the full breakdown of this union resurgence! #UnionsForAll

Following reports that the de Blasio administration’s Covid czar violated Covid rules by attending sex parties during the pandemic, NYC Council Common Sense Caucus called on Mayor Adams to reinstate city workers fired for refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate. thechiefleader.com/stories/ex-cit…

Dozens of members of the PSC/CUNY were arrested Monday evening during a protest where they demanded a better economic offer from CUNY as part of their push for a contract. thechiefleader.com/stories/cuny-f…

For The Chief: Wrote about BNWorkersUnion USQ's effort to reach a first contract with Barnes & Noble and its calls for higher bookseller pay throughout the industry. thechiefleader.com/detail.html?su…

The head of TWU Local 100 has been suspended following 'highly credible' allegations of improper sexual conduct with a subordinate. thechiefleader.com/stories/local-…

Port Jervis and Pascack Valley trains are not running because of the NJ Transit suspension. While NJ Transit is suspended, Metro-North Railroad is providing a list of potential alternate service options, including a network of cross-Hudson routes to connect with train service

.NJ TRANSIT train engineers have gone on strike, idling all commuter train service. NJT CEO calls walkout “a pause in the conversation.” thechiefleader.com/stories/nj-tra…

.New York City Council members vow override of Mayor Eric Adams’s veto of #NYC street-vendor reform bill. thechiefleader.com/stories/counci…

The PSC/CUNY Is demanding that The City University of New York address the ‘perennial’ problem of delayed payments to adjunct lecturers and professors, who teach the majority of classes. thechiefleader.com/stories/psc-s-…