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Lawyers protest Palestine poster prohibition

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
Posted 9/27/24

Unionized workers at the New York Legal Assistance Group held a lunchtime picket last week to protest management’s policy, in place since May, banning employees from putting posters related to the conflict in the Gaza Strip in their workspaces. 

The attorneys, paralegals and administrative staff at the legal aid organization say that union members put up posters and other media in their cubicles on a variety of political topics, but it wasn’t until workers put up posters in support of Palestinians in the months after Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attack that management instituted a crackdown. 

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