Unionized workers at the Legal Aid Society have voted for the first time in 30 years to authorize a strike. With 91 percent support and 99 percent of the bargaining unit participating in the vote, over 1,000 workers have sent the signal that they could walk out on strike at any time.
“All options are on the table,” Jane Fox, the unit chair of the Legal Aid Society Attorneys United, said Monday afternoon. The union, part of Local 2325 of the United Auto Workers, is seeking large raises, strict limits on workloads, increased retirement contributions and other terms that would largely be funded by the city's budget.
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