{"id":1559838,"date":"2022-07-18T17:34:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559838"},"modified":"2022-07-18T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:34:54","slug":"dem-staffers-unionize-citing-poor-pay-and-pervasive-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-staffers-unionize-citing-poor-pay-and-pervasive-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Staffers Unionize, Citing Poor Pay and Pervasive Sexual Harassment"},"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%2Fdem-staffers-unionize-citing-poor-pay-and-pervasive-sexual-harassment%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=1559838&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>The Congressional Workers Union announced today eight Democratic offices will be the first to unionize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For far too long, congressional staff have dealt with unsafe working conditions, unlivable wages, and vast inequity in our workplaces,&#8221; a Monday press release stated. &#8220;Having a seat at the bargaining table through a union will ensure we have a voice in decisions that impact our workplace.&#8221; The Congressional Workers Union\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congressionalworkersunion.org\/factsheets\/blog-post-title-three-j8n87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> says the unionization effort was prompted by &#8220;problematic work conditions,&#8221; including insufficient pay, high turnover, and &#8220;pervasive&#8221; sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-five staffers from the offices of Reps. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), Chuy Garcia (D., Ill.), Ro Khanna (D., Calif.), Andy Levin (D., Mich.), Ted Lieu (D., Calif.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), and Melanie Stansbury (D., N.M.) moved to join the new union.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those members are multimillionaires. Lieu, a lawyer and real estate investor, has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/personal-finances\/ted-lieu\/net-worth?cid=N00035825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> 2018 net worth of $3.5 million, according to OpenSecrets. Levin owns an energy company and has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/personal-finances\/andy-levin\/net-worth?cid=N00042149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">net worth<\/a> of almost $3.95 million. The median salary for House staffers is $59,000.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats hemorrhaged staff at a rate 24 percent higher than Republicans in 2021, the\u00a0<em>Hill<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/599093-house-staff-turnover-highest-in-20-years-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p>A former chief of staff to Garcia resigned in 2019 following allegations that he laughed in the face of a female staffer after she disclosed she had been sexual harassed when both were working on Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s (I., Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign. Bush and Ocasio-Cortez both claim to have been victims of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Levin led the <a href=\"https:\/\/andylevin.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/house-passes-levin-resolution-allow-congressional-workers-right-unionize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charge<\/a> to pass the resolution making congressional unionizing legal. The resolution passed in May, but a Senate version has yet to pass. Now, House staffers cannot be fired, demoted, or otherwise punished for unionizing, a development that opened the door for Monday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The union\u2019s website says a few negotiation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congressionalworkersunion.org\/factsheets\/blog-post-title-two-zf4mk-b9epy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">goals<\/a> are more flexible telework options, comprehensive health and safety protocols, and improved severance policies. In April, after President Joe Biden urged Americans to return to in-person work during his State of the Union address, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reported in March Democrats on Capitol Hill had failed to end their work-from-home policies, preferring to extend teleworking policies indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Workers Union announced today eight Democratic offices will be the first to unionize. &#8220;For far too long, congressional staff have dealt with unsafe working conditions, unlivable wages, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":929,"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-1559838","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\/1559838","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\/929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559838\/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=1559838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}