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worker gets laundry money
As a School Lunch Assistant at East New York
Technical High School in Brooklyn, Simone Edwards Murray gets her uniform a bit
soiled at times.
But thats not a problem for her. As a member of
Board of Education Employees Local 372, she is entitled under the unions
collective bargaining agreement to be reimbursed for her laundry expenses.
After
she put in to be reimbursed in 2005, the BOEs Office of School Food and
Nutrition Services assured her that her check was in the mail.
They
told me it would be paid promptly. I even took maternity leave, and when I came
back they still hadnt reimbursed me, said Murray, who is also a shop
steward for Local 372.
She eventually lost her patience with OSFNS and
filed a grievance with the help of DC 37 Schools Division Grievance Rep Patricia
Orr.
It took a while, but OSFNS finally reimbursed her in June for the
$70.26 that she was owed for 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Its not the
amount that counts. Its the principle, said Schools Division Director
Marva Lewis-Bradford. Our members are due this benefit and the union will
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