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On November 15, 2011, a group of Brooklyn, New York residents filed a federal civil action against the Atlantic Yard Development Company LLC, Forest City Ratner Companies LLC, Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development and others, alleging that they should have been paid for work they performed pursuant to a pre-apprentice training program. The progam promised jobs to anyone, who essentially agreed to work for free on a building renovation project in Staten Island, New York.
The plaintiffs worked for two months for the developers and ultimately were not given the jobs that they were promised.

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