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October 2, 2009
DC 37 accuses education department of “union-busting”
Today was the last day of work for more than a hundred school aides whose union says they were laid off because of mismanagement rather than budget cuts.
District Council 37, the city’s largest municipal union, attacked the education department this afternoon for what they called “a clear case of union-busting.”
In a statement, Veronica Montgomery-Costa, president of DC 37′s Local 372 chapter, accused Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein of diverting resources out of the school system into no-bid contracts. The union also resurrected the summer’s fight over parent-funded school aides, saying that those privately-funded positions undercut union jobs, resulting in the loss of over 700 positions. (more…)
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