FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Unionized Brooklyn Defenders Staff Declares "No Confidence" in Executive Director Lisa Schreibersdorf, Demands Board Place Schreibersdorf on Leave & Initiate Investigation

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Thrilled to join @ZohranKMamdani at his labor town hall! After BDS’s union-busting boss Lisa Schreibersdorf was caught illegally offering financial support and personal benefits to replace our union with a management-controlled union, our members have called for her removal.

"...ALAA calls for Lisa Schreibersdorf's resignation as executive director of Brooklyn Defenders; and...encourages our allies in labor and elected office to support BDS Union members...by likewise condemning Lisa Schreibersdorf and demanding her resignation."

Update—@alaa2325 Executive Board Adopts Resolution Condemning Lisa Schreibersdorf https://t.co/lxYU0wGhhP

@claireforqueens @UAW @bds_union All power to the people✊🏾. We with you!

This is wild. Executive Director of a legal services agency knowingly & willfully made an illegal attempt to get the union decertified.

@BklynDefender @HellGateNY Time to fire Lisa https://t.co/fqePmlb5fK

Today, I went to stand alongside @bds_union as they fight against union busting practices. We must protect the rights for workers to organize and prevent undermining attempts to cut them down. Right now, our legal services are all too important.

Proud to stand with my @UAW @bds_union siblings against the most blatantly egregious union busting I’ve ever seen. If Lisa thinks she can turn workers against each other, she better think again. Time to step up and do right by these workers, or it’s time to STEP DOWN 👋🏽

Hundreds of @uaw @BklynDefender workers picketing calling out Lisa Schreibersdorf’s union busting Thanks to @claireforqueens and @alexaforcouncil for standing with @alaa2325 NY is a union town! no public defense nonprofit can be led by a union buster! Step down Lisa!

"In a bizarre meeting, the worker said BDS executive director Lisa Schreibersdorf sat her down, complimented her work ethic, then asked her to lead a charge to decertify the BDS union, and start a new company-wide union with Schreibersdorf's support." https://t.co/UUM4U62ETq

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"One attorney who...requested anonymity because of fear of reprisal said Schreibersdorf’s leadership is reminiscent of their former employer. 'Lisa is Zeno 2.0, the other side of a bad coin...MOCJ should really consider doing something...before they have another scandal...'"

"'Her actions betray a contempt for the organization’s employees, their concerns, and most of all, their democratically elected representative: the Brooklyn Defender Services Union...Legal services workers deserve better, and moreover, indigent New Yorkers deserve better.'"

"'When pressed for justification for these changes, she openly professed a distrust of her own staff. Now, we find that Schreibersdorf is willing to commit blatant and obvious labor law violations to stifle discontent.'"

“'Since taking over the Queens Defenders contract earlier this year, Lisa Schreibersdorf has appeared intent on reducing efficiency and driving off talent from the two offices through the deliberate implementation of onerous working conditions...'"