Why Bronx and Harlem Public Defenders Walked Off the Job

Public defenders strike in New York City and Detroit; Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president, calls for unified walkout

More than 500 public defender workers are now on strike in New York City and Detroit, in an expanding rebellion against poverty wages, healthcare cuts and crushing caseloads.

Why Bronx Defenders are latest public defenders to strike

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Why Bronx and Harlem Public Defenders Walked Off the Job

New York’s courts are reckoning with a second consecutive summer of strikes by public defenders and legal staff at a constellation of private nonprofits who are represented by the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys-UAW Local 2325.  The ongoing strikes at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and Bronx Defenders are much smaller than the stoppages by seven organizations that rocked the court system last summer. But the strikes this summer have …