Bronx Defenders’ Staff Seeks to Be Next Unionized Nonprofit (1)

Lawyers and other Bronx Defenders employees are planning to unionize, potentially adding to the growing ranks of legal services nonprofits that have organized in recent years.

Workers at the public defense nonprofit, which represents low income people in New York, announced their plans on Friday to the organization’s management.

The Bronx Defenders is one of a handful of nonprofit organizations that contract with New York City to provide public defense services, and would be the third to unionize.

An “overwhelming majority” of approximately 270 union-eligible employees have signed pledge cards to join the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys—UAW Local ...