Fighting to Increase the Shelter Allowance for Poor New Yorkers
November 15, 2016 LSSA’s Bronx Legal Services members rallied with Assemblymember Hevesi and our Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – ...
After the Election, the Path Forward
November 10, 2016 As union members who have dedicated our careers to providing free legal services to low-income New Yorkers, ...
Our Halloween Wonders
October 31, 2016 Our union members and our families pulled out all the stops this Halloween! ...
Union Softball Team Wins League Championship
August 12, 2016 LSSA’s softball team has again won the league championship! Thanks to Anthony Villanueva and Victor Brito for ...
LSNYC Management Raises
July 1, 2016 LSNYC managers are in the process right now of receiving raises retroactive to January 1, 2016. The ...
Our 2016 National Joint Council Conference
July 1, 2016 We had 15 union members off to Las Vegas this past week for the conference of our ...
Blast from the Past: A 1968 New York Times Profile of MFY
June 24, 2016 “In the old melting pot streets of the New York’s Lower East Side — at Mobilization for ...
Tupac Shakur’s Mother, Former Union Member, Dies
June 17, 2016We honor the passing of Afeni Shakur Davis, the mother of Tupac Shakur, who worked as a paralegal ...
UAW Works to Save LSNYC & MFY Immigration Funding
June 17, 2016 At the beginning of June, LSNYC and MFY learned that the proposed City Council budget reflected a ...
Standing with Locked-Out Honeywell Workers
June 17, 2016 Several members of LSSA, along with many other UAW members, traveled to upstate New York on Wednesday ...
Our Annual Delegate Training
June 10, 2016 We held a new delegate training this week, and among other topics our delegates got hands-on experience ...
LSSA Bylaws Amended to Build Strike Hardship Fund
June 9, 2016 The delegates have voted to amend our governing bylaws to change how our dues are allocated. The ...
Nydia Roman Retires After 37+ Years
June 3, 2016 On Friday, June 3rd, the Bronx office held a retirement party for Nydia Roman, who began working ...
Determining the Salary and Anniversary Date for Lawyers and Social Workers
May 27, 2016 Our union has reached agreement with LSNYC management on the method for determining the salary and anniversary ...
LSNYC Selects New Retirement Provider
May 20, 2016 Our union has long pressed LSNYC to take the financial health of our retirement accounts seriously. In ...
Big Win Protecting Our Fellows
May 20, 2016 Last week, we learned that the Immigrant Justice Corps fellowship program planned to radically change their fellowship ...
We Still Remember
May 15, 2016 Three years ago, LSNYC management chose to terminate, without notice, the health insurance of our LSNYC members who were ...
Mobilizing Labor to Help Puerto Rico
May 14, 2016 Puerto Rico’s situation is dire. The UAW represents thousand of workers and retirees on the island who ...
Members Vote to Bolster Strike Hardship Fund By Raising Dues
May 13, 2016 Following an extensive assessment of our union’s finances, we identified that although our finances are healthy and ...
Gaining a Voice in Upper Management Evaluations
May 13, 2016 Many of our members have thoughts about the job their Project Director is doing. But that does ...
Union Members Chosen for Strategic Planning Committee
May 6, 2016 The Delegates Assembly voted this week to choose union members for the LSNYC strategic planning committee. They ...
We’re 400 Members Strong!
May 1, 2016 In the last few weeks, we reached a new era in Legal Services Staff Association history: we ...
LSSA to Pay Membership Fees for Members to Join AFL-CIO Constituency Groups
April 2016 LSSA2320 Union Members: Are you a person of color, LGBTQ, a woman, or a veteran? You can join ...