Shop stewards at the Strand, a prominent New York City bookstore, are denouncing owner Nancy Bass-Wyden for accepting federal loans but failing to keep workers on the payroll.
Of about 170 members of United Auto Workers Local 2179, all but very few were laid off in March even though Bass-Wyden had applied for PPP. Forty-five employees were brought back to reopen the store June 22. On July 7 Bass-Wyden once again laid off 12 union workers, two weeks after rehire.