{"id":1271397,"date":"2022-02-04T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1271397"},"modified":"2022-02-04T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:08:09","slug":"with-pelosi-and-schumers-blessing-hill-staffers-announce-union-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-pelosi-and-schumers-blessing-hill-staffers-announce-union-push\/","title":{"rendered":"With Pelosi And Schumer\u2019s Blessing, Hill Staffers Announce Union Push"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fwith-pelosi-and-schumers-blessing-hill-staffers-announce-union-push%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=1271397&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><\/div>\n<p>A group of Capitol Hill staffers announced Friday that they will begin the process to form a union, following declarations of support from top Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile not all offices and committees share the same working conditions, we strongly believe that to better serve our constituents will require meaningful changes to improve retention, equity, diversity, and inclusion on Capitol Hill. That starts with having a voice in the workplace. We call on all congressional staff to join in the effort to unionize, and look forward to meeting management at the table,\u201d the Congressional Workers Union said in a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, the Congressional Workers Union announces staff efforts to unionize the offices and committees of the United States Congress. Read our full statement here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pnl7rMhpjB\">pic.twitter.com\/pnl7rMhpjB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Congressional_Workers_Union (@Congress_Union) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Congress_Union\/status\/1489629962705551361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The announcement comes with the blessing of both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Schumer believes that hard-working Senate staff have the right to organize their workplace and if they chose to do so, he would support that effort,\u201d a spokesman for the New York Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianne_levine\/status\/1489664491994427394\">said<\/a> Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cO<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">ur tireless Congressional staff have the right to organize their workplace and join together in a union. If and when staffers choose to exercise that right, they would have Speaker Pelosi\u2019s full support,\u201d a spokesman for Pelosi said Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Staffers have begun using social media to complain about what they view as unfair labor practices among members of Congress. The \u201cDear White Staffers\u201d Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dear_white_staffers\/?hl=en\">page<\/a> catalogs complaints from \u201cCongressional BIPOC shitposters on Capitol Hill.\u201d Several posts allege that staffers are paid unfairly, and that members repeatedly requested that staffers run personal errands. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/miserable-14-staffers-top-progressive-harsh-workplace\/\"><strong>(RELATED: \u2018Made Me So Miserable\u2019: 14 Former Staffers Accuse Top Progressive Of Running \u2018Harsh\u2019 Workplace Environment)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although congressional staffers have never before unionized, employees on several prominent Democratic campaigns attempted to form unions during recent election cycles. Campaign staffers for Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 2020 presidential campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/16\/bernie-sanders-campaign-unionize\/\">formed<\/a> a union under United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400. Sanders and the union became embroiled in several labor disputes after staffers <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/07\/19\/report-bernie-sanders-campaign-staff-workers-15-dollars-hour-minimum-wage\/\">alleged<\/a> that the campaign paid below $15 an hour in violation of a campaign pledge, and that the campaign unlawfully <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/07\/24\/labor-trouble-bernie-sanders-nlrb-complaint-worker-harassment\/\">retaliated<\/a> against staffers for joining the union.<\/p>\n<p>New York mayoral candidate Dianne Morales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/dianne-morales-refuses-her-staff-unions-demands\/182799\/\">rejected<\/a> the unionization demands of her campaign staff. The staffers <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1qSefaqJcZAQeA7MNDKde8uPDRCwsyyXybSAx9V2f4fk\/preview\">demanded<\/a> a minimum pay of $25 an hour, and called on Morales to use campaign funds on \u201ccommunity grocery giveaways\u201d and \u201cMultilingual Politics For All People teach-ins\u201d instead of advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Capitol Hill staffers announced Friday that they will begin the process to form a union, following declarations of support from top Democrats.\u201cWhile not all offices and committees &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271397","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}