It is a fight to level the playing field to be able to compete for jobs and careers on the basis of skills and make available apprentice training to all. In 1973 Al Percy launched a class action lawsuit to give workers like him a chance to better their lot in life. It would also ensure the availability of skilled workers to build the infrastructure of the future.
Case 1:21-cv-01421-NGG Case MDL No. 3011 Document 1 25-6 Filed 03/17/21 Filed 06/24/21 Page 96 Page of 154 96 of PageID 154 #: 352 547. Parties who would oppose this action should not fear a threat because training the Percy Class in skills and safety will not take jobs, instead it will create economic opportunities which does not currently exist by utilizing the free enterprise wealth of our nation, its labor which is so desperately needed. Workers are the real wealth of our country, the labor-theory of value DEFENDANT GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OFFERED A SETTLEMENT OF PERCY V. BRENNAN IN CASE 73-CV-04279 THAT IS UNENFORCEABLE AND FAILED 548. In January of 1977, the Defendant State of New York presented to the Lasker Court, Governor’s Executive Order 45 (9 NYCRR 3.45, Document #6, Attachment 14, EDNY Case No. 21-cv-001366) in settlement to resolve the issues raised in the Case 73-cv-04279, Docket #99, Appendix 1, Volume 3 pages 749-757, 758-785, 786, 795 and Docket #103, Appendix 2, Volume 4, pages 823, 851 and 860 in 17-2273. 549. Thereupon, Case 73-cv-04279 was closed without prejudice, Judge Edelstein’s Order of May 4, 1977, page 740 of Appendix 1 at Docket #99 in 17-2273 and Document #6, Attachment 4, EDNY Case No. 21-cv-001366. 550. Then the New York Court of Appeals in Fullilove v Carey 48 NY2d 826 1979, Document #6, Attachment 20, EDNY Case No. 21-cv-00136, declared that Executive Order 45, Document #6, Attachment 11, EDNY Case No. 21-cv-001366 (9 NYCRR 3.45 docket at Document #6, Attachment 14, EDNY Case No. 21-cv-001366) as promulgated by Governor Carey was an unauthorized exercise of legislative power, illegal and unconstitutional and enjoined implementation of the provisions of said Executive Order or promulgating or enforcing any rules and regulations issued pursuant to said Executive Order 45. Decided together with Fullilove v Carey, was Fullilove v Beame 48 NY2d 376 1979, where the Court of Appeals of the State of New York determined that despite the redeeming social needed for the relief which Executive Order 45 intended, would not save the illegality of the method to provide the opportunity for the Percy Class to acquire necessary skills to compete for employment, see Fullilove v Carey 48 NY2d 826 1979. Unfortunately, Executive Order 45 was and is unconstitutional and unenforceable, causing the Percy Class to not receive the relief provided for in Executive Order 45. 551. Despite the illegality of Executive Order 45, it still remains today at 9 NYCRR 3.45, with no notification having been made to the Percy Class of its unconstitutionality and unenforceability. 552. The State's actions or failure to act, and failure to notify, were gross negligence and active misrepresentation, causing injury and damage to the Percy Class when the State proffered Executive Order 45 in settlement of Case 73-cv-04279, but it failed. 96
Case 1:21-cv-01421-NGG Case MDL No. 3011 Document 1 25-6 Filed 03/17/21 Filed 06/24/21 Page 97 Page of 154 97 of PageID 154 #: 353 553. There is an ongoing obligation of the State to notify and correct the misrepresentation about Executive Order 45. The Governor never notified the Percy Class that the settlement offered by the State and its Government Agencies had failed. Defendant Governor and his Agencies Actively Undermine the Percy Program 554. The Plaintiff will produce evidence to persuade and show that the State has, in fact, interfered with the Percy Program’s ability to provide affirmative action in equal employment opportunity, despite the redeeming value of allowing the Percy Program as an Alternative Employment Practice demonstrated to the State to meets the burden of production and persuasion under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by the Advocates on behalf of the Percy Class. 555. The State and the Government Agencies are failing to effectively foster affirmative action, and in fact, the State has no meaningful affirmative action program at all. The State should have allowed a vehicle to provide affirmative action where none exists. 556. The Advocates at paragraph 565 hereof, presented the Percy Program as an Alternative Employment Practice to Governor David Patterson, at a meeting arranged by Clemmie Harris, while Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was seeking to terminate the Percy Program Alternative Employment Practice , proposing that the State of New York adopt and mandate the Alternative Employment Practice but the State of New York has remained apathetic to the plight of the Percy Class and has not taken effective steps to correct the disparate treatment to the Percy Class, especially where, as here, the State in concert with others yet to be identified in fact have taken active steps to put the Percy Program out of business. 557. The Advocates identified herein at paragraph 567, then followed up with Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2011 in an effort to bring affirmative action of Executive Order 45 to fruition by the private solution of the Alternative Employment Practice, but Governor Cuomo was likewise apathetic. 558. Failure to notify the Percy Class, covering up, hiding and secreting the State’s failure to accomplish the affirmative action relief awarded in Case 73-cv-04279, whether negligently or intentionally, and then taking overt steps to eliminate the Percy Program, is all to the damage of the Percy Class. 559. The Class, as the intended beneficiaries of federal funding described herein, are entitled to an accounting relative to the compliance with Federal Funding from Medicaid and Medicare described herein. 560. The Percy Class is also entitled to an accounting as to how Defendant Government Agencies calculate both their compliance with these statutes and regulations, and how 97
