The Brooklyn Paper reports that a group of seven workers have filed a lawsuit against Atlantic Yards on Tuesday, accusing developer Bruce Ratner of setting up a ‘sham’ job-training program that gave them false promises of employment.
Although they were promised union membership and jobs in exchange for taking a 15-week apprenticeship course in 2010, the workers claim they were never hired on Ratner’s $5-billion mega-project.
“This was the biggest bait-and-switch in the history of Brooklyn,” said Councilwoman Letitia James (D-Fort Greene).
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