Union & LSNYC Create Explicit Expectations for Supervisory Relationship
December 2019 As a part of our 2017 contract negotiations with Legal Services NYC, LSNYC agreed to a multi-faceted supervision training and support plan to comprehensively enrich supervision throughout the organization. One aspect of this plan was to create explicit expectations for both supervisors and staff of what each should expect from the other in […]
Our 2019 Holiday Party
December 7, 2019 Thank you to all of our members and families who joined us for our annual holiday party last night!
Our History
by present and past LSSA Presidents Sonja Shield, Jim Provost, and Gibb Surette Legal Services Workers Organize In 1972, Legal Services workers in New York City organized themselves as the Legal Services Staff Association. LSSA was determined from the very beginning to be a “wall to wall” union, with every union worker in every legal services […]
Report from our Delegate Training
November 1, 2019 This week our union delegates attended an all-day training to build skills representing our union members and supporting a strong and united union. We create the power to change our workplaces by building solidarity with each other, through commonalities and across difference. Through a spider’s web exercise, we talked about how […]