{"id":2053,"date":"2020-12-17T18:19:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2020-12-17T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:19:52","slug":"statement-from-speaker-johnson-on-councils-historic-action-to-voluntarily-recognize-union-of-council-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/12\/17\/2053\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Johnson on Council\u2019s Historic Action To Voluntarily Recognize Union of Council Staffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>New York, NY \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Below is a statement from Council Speaker Corey Johnson on the Council\u2019s Dec. 7 petition with the New York City Office of Collective Bargaining to voluntarily recognize the newly formed Association of Legislative Employees, a union\u00a0that\u00a0will\u00a0represent\u00a0two\u00a0civil service titles in the Council\u2019s Finance Division. The two titles, which represent 23 staff members, are \u201cLegislative Financial Analyst\u201d and \u201cSenior Legislative Financial Analyst.\u201d\u00a0This historic action\u00a0now goes to\u00a0the Office of Collective Bargaining for certification. Upon certification, we believe the City Council\u00a0will become\u00a0the first legislative body in the state of New York to have unionized employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the proud son of a Teamster, I am a staunch supporter of labor and deeply appreciate the stability and benefits that unions provide to working families. I am told that it is rare to have a City governmental entity file a voluntary petition of recognition for employees seeking to unionize but I believe that\u00a0it is important to practice what you preach, especially when it comes to workers\u2019 rights.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I am so proud to have filed this petition on behalf of our Central Staff Legislative and Senior Legislative Finance Analysts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>New York, NY \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Below is a statement from Council Speaker Corey Johnson on the Council\u2019s Dec. 7 petition with the New York City Office of Collective Bargaining to voluntarily recognize the newly formed Association of Legislative Employees, a union\u00a0that\u00a0will\u00a0represent\u00a0two\u00a0civil service titles in the Council\u2019s Finance Division. The two titles, which represent 23 staff members, are \u201cLegislative Financial Analyst\u201d and \u201cSenior Legislative Financial Analyst.\u201d\u00a0This historic action\u00a0now goes to\u00a0the Office of Collective Bargaining for certification.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/12\/17\/2053\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}