Union-LSNYC Covid-related agreements
LSNYC and the LSSA union are engaged in ongoing negotiations over policies for safeguarding the health of our staff, our ...
MFJ Shop Statement on Mobilization for Justice’s Relationship with Jones Day
The below letter was sent on November 30, 2020 via email to Tiffany Liston, Esq., MFJ Interim Executive Director, and ...
Legal Fellows at LSNYC Miscategorized as Temporary Employees, Should Be Permanent
Law students seeking legal fellowships at LSNYC should be aware of potential miscategorization of their employment. Our union has repeatedly ...
LSSA Testimony to State Assembly Judiciary Committee on Budget and Staffing Reductions in the Judiciary Branch
The following testimony was submitted to the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Judiciary for their November 12, 2020 ...
New York’s Leading Labor Leaders Call On Albany To Enact The Emergency Housing Stability & Displacement Prevention Act
(September 25, 2020, NEW YORK, NY) – New York State’s leading labor unions – including the United Federation of Teachers; ...
Testimony of LSSA Vice President Ayla Trinidad to NY City Council Regarding Covid-19 & Evictions
Testimony of Ayla Trinidad, LSSA 2320 Vice President, to the New York City Council’s Committee on Housing & Buildings and ...
LSSA Testimony to NYS Senate Hearing on Courts & Covid
LSSA Union President Sonja Shield testified before the New York State Senate’s Judiciary, Codes and Housing, Construction and Community Development ...
Upcoming LSNYC Member Contract Ratification Vote
LSNYC members will be meeting to discuss and vote on the package of contract changes on Thursday July 23rd beginning ...
Statement of Legal Services Staff Association and the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys Opposing the Premature and Dangerous Opening of New York City Courts
July 9, 2020 For immediate release The unions representing attorneys and legal workers providing civil legal services to New York ...
Multi-Union Legal Services Statement In Opposition to the Reopening of Housing Court
July 6, 2020 We are unionized legal services unions and workers who represent tenants in New York City’s housing courts ...
Union’s Financial Proposal to LSNYC
June 18, 2020 It is imperative that we correct the inequalities in our step system. Our step system is systematically ...
Statement on the Supreme Court’s DACA Decision
June 18, 2020 Legal Services Staff Association Local 2320 is relieved that the Supreme Court has repudiated the Trump administration’s ...
An Open Letter from the Legal Services Staff Association 2320 concerning Urooj Rahman
June 18, 2020 An Open Letter from the Legal Services Staff Association 2320: We are members of the Legal Services ...
Supporting Black Lives & the Fight for Racial Justice
June 1, 2020 This weekend, cities across the United States erupted in protest to demand justice for the racist murders ...
Statement in Support of Amending the Practice Order for Law Graduates Working for Legal Services Organizations and Government
May 13, 2020 The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (UAW Local 2325) and The Legal Services Staff Association (UAW Local ...
NYC Right to Counsel Union Taskforce Issues Guiding Principles for How Right to Counsel Should be Funded & Implemented
May 6, 2020 The NYC Right to Counsel Union Taskforce represents members of Legal Services Staff Association (NOLSW/UAW 2320), the ...
Statement of Unionized Legal Workers in Support of the Tenants’ Movement
April 30, 2020 As legal services workers and as members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW 2325, the ...
Eviction Moratorium FAQ
April 7, 2020 EVICTION COURTS ARE CLOSED! NO LAWSUITS, NO EVICTIONS! Haz clic aquí para Español Para un PDF, aquí está en Español. PDF in English, click ...
LSSA & ALAA Call on DiFiore to Close the Courts
March 13, 2020 Today the Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW/UAW 2325, and the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW 2325, ...
LSSA & ALAA Call on NY Courts & Agencies to Take Precautions to Protect Court-Involved Low-Income NYers & Legal Services Workers from Covid-19
March 9, 2020 The Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW/UAW 2320, and the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW 2325, together ...
Our Union’s 2020 Lobbying in Albany
March 6, 2020 Eight LSSA members attended the UAW New York lobbying conference in Albany this week. With over 100 other UAW members from ...
Union Testifies at RTC Hearing
February 28, 2020 This week we testified at the New York City Council on behalf of Right to Counsel, along ...
LSSA Support for DACA Recipients
January 31, 2020 Legal Services Staff Association Local 2320 welcomes and supports our union members who are DACA recipients. Our DACAmented members ...
Our History
by present and past LSSA Presidents Sonja Shield, Jim Provost, and Gibb Surette Legal Services Workers Organize In 1972, Legal ...