On Saturday, The Daily News covered our lawsuit being filed today, on behalf of people essentially coerced into working for the City for free as a condition of an “ACD”, or Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal. We’re very excited about this suit, as it is on behalf of people who are not convicted of anything, and have pled guilty to nothing, yet the city squeezes free labor out of them so they don’t have to spend a year and a half coming back and forth to court to prove their innocence.
Here’s the Daily News article- we’ll get the complaint posted as soon as it gets filed.
The free labor is not only exploitative, but it suppresses wages and reduces the bargaining power of unions across the city.
