After months of conflict involving alleged intimidation and potentially illegal firings, workers at Queens Defenders voted overwhelmingly to unionize.
In a striking sign of activists’ success, most candidates running in the June election for DA say they would not prosecute cases involving consensual sex work.
With the state ethics commission widely seen as controlled by the governor, legislators are looking for other ways to investigate the allegations.
Amid an ongoing union election at the Queens indigent defense law firm, two outspoken union supporters were fired without warning.
A wave of legal aid attorneys are joining the labor movement. But bosses say it’s bad for business and the unions just want to collect their dues.