LSSA members delivered over 7,000 signed petitions to the LSNYC Board calling on LSNYC to offer a fair contract to its workers. In less than two weeks time, the union received over 7,000 signatures of support from our clients, community residents, and people all around the nation who are concerned for the future of Legal […]
Today, the New York City Council, in a letter signed by 42 members, expressed strong support for striking members of the Legal Services Staff Association. “We are particularly troubled that the LS-NYC Board and management appear more concerned with forcing employees to accept benefit cuts than reaching a fair and equitable settlement,” said the letter, […]
Accompanied by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, LSSA members held a rally outside the LSNYC Central office at 40 Worth Street in Manhattan to protest Executive Director Raun Rasmussen’s failure to stand up to Board Chair Joe Genova and Vice-Chair Michael Young, and his failure to lead LSNYC in a positive direction that would ensure high […]
Members and supporters of the Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW/UAW Local 2320 (LSSA), the union representing attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, process servers, and other professionals employed with Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), yesterday rallied in front of LSNYC’s Tribeca headquarters. LSSA yesterday rejected management’s contract proposal which demanded unprecedented cuts to health care and retirement benefits. An […]
Members of the Legal Services Staff Association (LSSA), the union representing over 200 attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, process servers, and other professionals employed with Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), today rejected management’s contract proposal which demanded unprecedented cuts to health care and retirement benefits. Employees at LSNYC, the nation’s largest provider of low-income civil legal services, are […]
May 6, 2013 Over 200 employees of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), the largest low-income civil legal services provider in the nation, received unprecedented contract demands from their employer on Wednesday evening. The LSNYC Board of Directors demanded financially unnecessary concessions including weaker healthcare coverage for particularly vulnerable members, higher employee payments to healthcare premiums, reductions […]
Some 200 unionized employees of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) this week participated in a half-day strike to demonstrate solidarity in the face of draconian contract changes proposed by their employer. Members of the Legal Services Staff Association (LSSA) have been presented with a list of drastic giveback demands that resemble — and in some ways […]