Hate to think what the working conditions were like under this person.
Posted on 07/19/2022 8:23:48 AM PDT by Houserino
The Congressional Workers Union announced today eight Democratic offices will be the first to unionize.
"For far too long, congressional staff have dealt with unsafe working conditions, unlivable wages, and vast inequity in our workplaces," a Monday press release stated. "Having a seat at the bargaining table through a union will ensure we have a voice in decisions that impact our workplace." The Congressional Workers Union’s website says the unionization effort was prompted by "problematic work conditions," including insufficient pay, high turnover, and "pervasive" sexual harassment.
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.
Some of those members are multimillionaires. Lieu, a lawyer and real estate investor, has a reported 2018 net worth of $3.5 million, according to OpenSecrets. Levin owns an energy company and has a net worth of almost $3.95 million. The median salary for House staffers is $59,000.
Democrats hemorrhaged staff at a rate 24 percent higher than Republicans in 2021, the Hill reported in March.
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’s (I., Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign. Bush and Ocasio-Cortez both claim to have been victims of sexual harassment.
Levin led the charge 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’s announcement.
The union’s website says a few negotiation goals 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 Washington Free Beacon reported in March Democrats on Capitol Hill had failed to end their work-from-home policies, preferring to extend teleworking policies indefinitely.
Hate to think what the working conditions were like under this person.
So Democrats have a problem, maybe staff should ask Americans to vote for Republicans next election.
Maybe it should be the Democratic Socialist Congressional Workers Union.
F*** congressional staffers. They get paid what they are worth. If they don’t like their jobs they can go get new ones. Except that they all have no sellable skills. As I said. Too bad. F*** off political slimeballs.
Big labor is a predatory failure but has found a few to prey on in the Capitol.
Elsewhere, GM and Ford for instance the host of the parasitic union is near death and they are doomed
So Commucrat staffers are being sexually harrassed by their fellow Commucrat staffers and Congressmen (male, female and others?)
I mean, how much close interaction do they typically have with Republican staffers?
Again, more material the RNC could work with in campaign ads, but choses not to do so.
ALL public employee unions need to be BANNED!!
And that is where redistribution needs to start. If you are going to push that agenda, then start with your own house, don’t mess with mine. Once we all see how well it works for you, then everyone will want to join in!!!!
Sounds like more money laundering and all the money going to the Democrats
Need legislation for that thanks to LBJ (federal level) then thanks to numerous Rat politicians at state & below.
You’re right it needs to be done.
And I would bet dollars to donuts that they always vote Democrat.
No more unions on taxpayers dime. Period.
Its interesting how its all staffers from Democrat Reps.
Going to work in DC is just like going to work in a late 19th century coal mine.
Pass the popcorn.
5.56mm
Government Unions are the problem to the solution
All Dems…..of course..
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