
Workers at the Cambridge District Court joined NAGE National President David J. Holway and other allies outside the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse on April 18, just before a status conference on the stalled plans to relocate workers from the unsafe building was to occur at the state Supreme Judicial Court.
President Holway, OPEIU Business Agent Maleia Allan, and Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys Paul Leavis were on hand as attorney Chris Milne prepared to attend the meeting at the SJC. The Trial Court first promised in 2004 to move workers from the Sullivan Courthouse, when the Commonwealth stated that poor conditions in the building constituted an emergency. Yet in 2008, the workers of the Cambridge District Court are still at risk from the building’s free-falling elevators, dangerous disrepair, and 90,000 pounds of friable asbestos (the kind that easily becomes airborne). Read More