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MMA Petitions NY Supreme Court on Prevailing Wage

NEW YORK CITY-Metropolitan Movers Association, a non-profit organization, filed a petition against the Comptroller’s office challenging the city’s prevailing wage schedule enacted on July 1.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on July 08, 2011

NEW YORK CITY-Non-profit organization the Metropolitan Movers Association, Inc., along with East Side Movers Inc. and Universal Moving & Storage Co., has filed a notice of petition against New York City Comptroller John C. Liu challenging the city’s prevailing wage schedule that took effect on July 1, arguing that the schedule violates statutory Section 230 of the New York Labor Law and a previous March 2011 opinion by New York Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger. The previous decision–Metropolitan Movers Association Inc. v. Liu–said that the Comptroller’s office set aside its use of Local 814 of the International Brotherhood of Teamster’s collective bargaining agreement as the basis for the city’s prevailing wage for moving and storage work, according the petition.

But in a notice of petition dated July 5, the petitioners say that the Comptroller “has brazenly defied this court’s recent instructions on how prevailing wages must be set,” citing that Liu’s office re-adopted the Local 814 collective bargaining agreement that was in effect in June 2010 “without determining whether moving employees generally receive such wages today,” according to the petition.

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