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Juneteenth Still Not a Holiday for NYC Workers, Despite Pledge From De Blasio


Juneteenth Still Not a Holiday for NYC Workers, Despite Pledge From De Blasio
The city would need to have labor negotiations with unions representing city workers in order to make it a holiday, and as of Thursday, there have been discussions but no negotiations, according to city officials
Published June 17, 2021 •
Updated on June 17, 2021 at 10:57 pm
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New York City municipal workers are not getting a paid Juneteenth holiday this year, despite a pledge last year from Mayor Bill de Blasio to make it one and as it becomes one for federal workers.
Juneteenth, on June 19th, marks the day in 1865, two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that enslaved Black people in Texas were told by Union soldiers that they had been freed. ....

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