Unionized attorneys at the second-largest public defender organization in the city voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike this week, increasing the risk of hundreds of lawyers and support staff walking off the job and hampering criminal courts in Queens and Brooklyn.
Read MoreThe Legal Aid Society reached a tentative labor agreement with its attorneys’ union Wednesday afternoon, likely ending the threat of what would have been the largest public defender strike the city has seen in three decades.
Read MoreThe threat of massive disruptions to the city’s courts grew Friday as the ongoing mass strike of public defenders and legal services attorneys doubled in size.
Read MoreThe prospect of the largest public defender strike in 30 years grew likelier Tuesday as hundreds of attorneys across a trio of organizations walked out of their offices and took to the picket line.
Read MoreThe largest public defender strike the city has seen in 30 years may start sooner than later, as a small group of legal services attorneys went on strike last week and as unions representing thousands of attorneys issued impending strike deadlines.
Read MoreAttorneys working at the city’s largest public defender group are prepared to begin the largest public defender strike in 30 years if the organization they work for doesn’t increase their pay and meet other demands for a new labor contract.
Read MoreResident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital are on strike. It’s the first time doctors in the city have gone on strike in over three decades.
Read MoreInterns and residents at two of Queens’ hospitals have announced that they will soon go on strike after the health network that runs the facilities did not meet their union’s demands for higher wages.
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