By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLOMembers of Bronx Defenders Union–UAW Local 2325 became the city’s third public defense group to strike this month when they walked off the job on July 27. In the Bronx, workers say they want to keep the Bronx Defenders team unified, with attorneys, social workers, investigators, advocates, and administrators working under one holistic defense model. Bronx Defenders members authorized a strike after a July 12 vote where 92% voted and 95% of those approved a strike if needed. “Our social workers right now — management’s trying to take our social workers out of a pay scale that they were in that would have entitled them to more pay.” In a statement issued after the strike began, Bronx Defenders Executive Director Juval O. Scott said, “Everyone at the Bronx Defenders is a public defender.