UP TO 2,000 UAW LEGAL SERVICES WORKERS TO STRIKE NEXT WEEK
***PRESS ADVISORY***
Hundreds of UAW Members to Rally Tuesday Morning for a Fair Contract
(NEW YORK, NY) - Over the past six months, eleven chapters of Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys (ALAA - UAW Local 2325) representing almost 2,000 non-profit legal services workers, have been escalating a historic coordinated campaign. Negotiations have been ongoing since February, and none of the eleven coordinated units has reached an agreement. Members at the Goddard Riverside Law Project began striking Wednesday morning. In the past few days, hundreds of union members at NYLAG and Urban Justice Center announced a strike deadline of Tuesday, July 15, and will commence with a rally outside Federal Plaza at 9:30AM. Hundreds of additional members at Bronx Defenders, Appellate Advocates, Center for Appellate Litigation, and Office of the Appellate Defender have announced a strike deadline of Friday, July 18. Additionally, Legal Aid Society Attorneys United, representing the largest shop in UAW 2325 of nearly 1,100 workers at the Legal Aid Society, have notified their employer they have terminated their collective bargaining agreement, enabling them to strike as early as July 18th if an agreement is not reached. Striking remains the last resort for the Union; each unit’s fair and reasonable demands are as much about justice in the workplace as maintaining the quality of representation for the most vulnerable New Yorkers they represent on a daily basis.
“Legal service workers are the frontline of defense against a federal administration that threatens to displace and harm New Yorkers, and have served our most vulnerable in their most difficult moments. Trump-proofing the city means bolstering our legal defenses when the Courts have been our main recourse against his attacks,” said Council Member Carmen De La Rosa, Chair of the Committee on Civil Service and Labor. “We can afford to pay our workers. What we cannot afford is a weak NYC in the face of a federal administration out to get us and our people.”
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Press Contact:
Leah W. Duncan
C: 347.990.0472
lduncan@alaa.org