May 27, 2016 Our union has reached agreement with LSNYC management on the method for determining the salary and anniversary date for lawyers and social workers that will result in salary increases and retroactive payments for a number of staff hired in the last seven years. Our union contract states that attorneys and social workers […]

May 27, 2016

May 20, 2016 Our union has long pressed LSNYC to take the financial health of our retirement accounts seriously. In 2015, taking a significant step towards this goal, LSNYC agreed to the union’s request to ask for bids on our retirement contract. In February 2016, our union, along with LSNYC management, interviewed four companies (Mass […]

May 20, 2016 Last week, we learned that the Immigrant Justice Corps fellowship program planned to radically change their fellowship program. Instead of the fellows being on staff at LSNYC, IJC wanted to make them staff of the IJC program. That would have meant that instead of being paid a union salary and benefits, with the […]