December 11, 2014 The Legal Services Staff Association (“LSSA”) shares the disappointment and outrage felt by the family of Eric Garner, other advocates and organizations, and communities across the nation regarding the failure of the District Attorney in Staten Island to obtain an indictment for the killing of Eric Garner by officers of the NYPD. […]

December 10, 2014 The union’s Executive Committee has written to the Board of Legal Services NYC to convey the union’s disappointment with LSNYC’s upper level management for needlessly forcing the union out on strike in 2013, and then losing $1.27 million dollars in federal Legal Services Corporation funding as a result. The union is calling […]

Legal Services NYC pushed over 200 of our union members out on strike in the summer of 2013. LSNYC pled poverty. We agreed to come back to work without cost of living increases. Management was all, score! Turns out they had almost 6 million extra sitting in the bank, unspent. LSNYC “found” the money in […]

November 20, 2014 The union members of Legal Services NYC and MFY met on November 19th and set a strike deadline of January 30, 2015. On that date, the union members of both organizations will meet to discuss and vote on management’s January 15, 2015 offer. At that point, union members would then have had […]