{"id":1187707,"date":"2022-01-04T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187707"},"modified":"2022-01-04T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:05:07","slug":"dnc-staffers-unionize-with-major-democratic-party-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dnc-staffers-unionize-with-major-democratic-party-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Staffers Unionize With Major Democratic Party Donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdnc-staffers-unionize-with-major-democratic-party-donor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">SEIU gave $13 million to Democratic candidates in the 2020 cycle<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/dnc-headdquarters-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dnc-headdquarters-1.jpg 485w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dnc-headdquarters-1-300x210.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tDemocratic National Committee headquarters in Washington \/ AP\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 January 4, 2022 4:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Employees at the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday voted to unionize with one of the party&#8217;s major donors.<\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds of the DNC&#8217;s staff opted to unionize with the Service Employees International Union Local 500, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dnc-staff-unionize-staff-signing-cards-2022-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to <em>Business Insider<\/em>. The nation&#8217;s second-largest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/service-employees-international-union\/totals?id=d000000077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">union<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/outsidespending\/detail.php?cmte=C00004036&amp;cycle=2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PAC<\/a> gave $13 million to Democratic candidates in the 2020 cycle. The union will negotiate with DNC leadership, which has publicly supported the unionization push.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to send out a strong signal to campaigns, to state parties, to other groups in the political sphere, that this is something that we should do to stand with our allies who have stood with us for so long,&#8221; Lucas Acosta, a senior spokesman at the DNC, told <em>Insider<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>SEIU members largely work in health care, government, and property services. The union has become a driving force in labor policy, spending roughly $20 million on lobbying since 2000. Two members of the National Labor Relations Board, the nation&#8217;s top labor arbiter, are former SEIU leaders and have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/top-labor-arbiters-will-not-recuse-themselves-from-case-brought-by-former-employer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused<\/a> to recuse themselves from a case involving the union.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Goh, a DNC staffer and union leader, said unionizing will do more than &#8220;improve the lives&#8221; of staffers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement marking the vote, Goh wrote that unionizing will ensure that DNC staffers are &#8220;given the resources they need to thrive in their careers and succeed in our mission to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DNC received $3.6 million from the labor sector in the 2020 election cycle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats SEIU gave $13 million to Democratic candidates in the 2020 cycle  Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington \/ AP  Patrick Hauf \u2022 January &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":1895980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}