Legal Services NYC Strike Ends After 40 Days as Employees Ratify Contract that Preserves Benefits, Adds Job Security Assurances After nearly six weeks on strike, members of the Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW/UAW Local 2320 (LSSA) today approved a contract that allows the employees of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) to return to work representing New […]
Striking members of the Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW/UAW Local 2320 (LSSA), have released a video addressing the LSNYC Board of Directors, including Board Chair Joseph Genova and Executive Director Raun Rasmussen, regarding the organization’s decision to terminate employees’ health care without meaningful notice. “Our health insurance was cut off with zero notification to our […]
At LSSA’s Community Voices event on June 12th, clients, community leaders, and elected officials called for a fair contract for the advocates who provide critical legal representation to save their homes, ensure quality education for their children, and stabilize their families. As Staten Island Legal Services client, Mohammad Hassan, explained: “Without the help of Tyler […]
Monday, 6/17 LSNYC Central Office, 40 Worth Street, 8:30AM- 10AM Milbank Tweed, One Chase Manhattan Plaza, 11:30AM-1PM Tuesday, 6/18 JAMS (Michael Young’s Office), New York Times Building at 242 W. 41st Street, 9AM – 10:30AM Wednesday, 6/18 Home Shop Picket, picket at the office in your community, 8:30 AM-10:AM Brooklyn Office: 105 Court Street Queens […]
Clients, community leaders, and elected officials today spoke out forcefully on behalf of the striking employees of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC). Speakers called for a fair contract for the advocates who provide critical legal representation to save their homes, ensure quality education for their children, and stabilize their families. Councilmembers Rosie Mendez (a former member […]
Striking members of the Legal Services Staff Association will hold Community Voices: Save Legal Services Wednesday, June 12, 2013, from 2-2:30pm, on the steps of City Hall featuring clients and community organizers who have benefited from civil legal services provided by the striking advocates of Legal Services NYC. Following the event, at 2:40, there will be […]
LSNYC’s decision to terminate our healthcare without notice has disrupted necessary health care services for our members and their families, and has directly resulted in missed prescriptions and more than one emergency room visit over the past week. LSNYC’s claims are untrue that they were required to cut off our health care and that our […]
Tuesday 6/11 MLS Harlem Shop Picket, 1 West 125th Street, 9AM – 10:30AM Milbank Tweed Demonstration, 1 Chase Plaza, 12PM – 1:30PM Wednesday 6/12 Brooklyn Court Street Office, 105 Court Street, 8:30AM – 10:30AM Community Voices Event, Steps of City Hall, 2PM March from City Hall to Milbank Tweed and back to City Hall, 3PM […]
Striking members of the Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW/UAW Local 2320 (LSSA), employees of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), continue their Committed to Our Communities events by releasing a video entitled “Making a Career in Legal Services: Why We Do This Work.” The video explains the motivations behind the decision to strike by the more than […]
Striking members of the Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW/UAW Local 2320 (LSSA) expressed shock and disappointment at statements made by Executive Director Raun Rasmussen last week. Asked about staff’s concerns with Board Chair Joseph Genova’s leadership of LSNYC, Mr. Rasmussen told a Thomson Reuters reporter “there’s really no one more committed to the organization.” Staff […]